Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 18 ) About four months before the time I am writing of , my Lady had been in London , and had gone over a Reformatory … |
| 2 | My beloved 's been in this cupboard and messed it all up . |
| 3 | MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs . |
| 4 | MY marriage has been in trouble for two years , ever since my husband started having affairs . |
| 5 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
| 6 | We travel back and forth all the time between Canada and England , and my husband has been in nearly every country of the world on business . |
| 7 | ‘ My husband has been in the R.A.F. for nearly four years , but we had saved enough for the costs of a normal confinement in a nursing home , and as it was my first baby , we thought it well worth a little extra expense . |
| 8 | She wanted to know — as I suspect you do — what my relationship had been with her late sister . |
| 9 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 10 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm very glad to hear it , my dear , perhaps you 'd pass my comments along the chain of command , because , you see , my wife 's been in the party for 47 years and now she says she 's going to vote for that Natural Law doo-dah . |
| 12 | Jim there 's a Despatches programme on Channel Four next week where some of the work that we 've done on B S E is fea featured and my colleague 's been through it as well . |
| 13 | You have no idea , have you , what my life 's been like ? ’ |
| 14 | The best moments of my life have been with music . ’ |
| 15 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 16 | I want to forget that a big chunk of my life has been about being as good a dissident as possible . |
| 17 | So , concentrate on this and I 'm , I 'm , must get round to , I 'm sorry my life has been in turmoil because of the , the dog situation , Jean and I have n't been up to the West End , but erm , I , I know which book I want , I want to get you , erm , and yes , I want you to do this , so and this actually it 's very good , very difficult , good , do a bit of technic . |
| 18 | I outlined what my message had been over the past two weeks and would be at the Party Conference — that we stood by the National Health Service and had no intention of moving over to a new system of finance . |
| 19 | My training has been as a scientist , and I still ask questions which begin ‘ Why ? ’ ( as well as others beginning ‘ How ? ’ and ‘ What if ? ’ . |
| 20 | Er , my client has been in business at the u his own firm supplying computer software in a specialized market , that is stock control systems for clubs , pubs and restaurants . |
| 21 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 22 | She has been a couple of times but er when we were bringing up the family course she could n't reasonably go with me every week and er , but she had used to be er a good supporter when she was a girl , she used to go with her father in those days my son 's been with me , cos I took him las well he took me last night with his wife I went in their car . |
| 23 | Who will lose his legs — ‘ And sleep without his girl — ‘ ‘ My family have been through all this already . |
| 24 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
| 25 | As I said , everyone has to go there and a list of Swifts as long as my arm have been to it and now it 's your turn . ’ |
| 26 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 27 | I could n't help remembering the pleasure I had had in my clothes , how keen my mother had been on my wearing them , how we had often designed them and chosen them together and my mother had made most of them . |
| 28 | As far as I 'm aware my solicitor has been in contact with Burnley prosecution to have the case transferred to Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 29 | As far as I 'm aware my solicitor has been in contact with prosecution to have the case transferred to Birmingham Crown Court . |
| 30 | Her heart had been on her sleeve when Mandy had opened that door , and she felt utterly and abjectly humiliated . |