Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 2 | Er as well as applying for er vacancies that appear in newspapers as well as er registering myself with er agencies with whom I 've been in contact |
| 3 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 4 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 5 | It was someone she had been to bed with . |
| 6 | . Erm we 've had one attempted well one arson attack in the the period which we 've been on the flats . |
| 7 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 8 | Neither of those points is true after the years in which we have been in office . |
| 9 | I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident . |
| 10 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 11 | Between 1950 and 1975 the female proportion of the working population rose from 33 per cent ( which it had been since the 1890s ) to over 40 per cent ( Hunt , 1975 ) . |
| 12 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 13 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 14 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 15 | They tell me you have been to her , |
| 16 | She tells me she has been to every temple on the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini . |
| 17 | ‘ But you keep telling me she 's been in love with me for years . |
| 18 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 19 | Jane came across one called Georgina , whom she had been at school with . |
| 20 | And I took it to my bank manager who I 'd been with for God knows , all my life , so nearly twenty years , and er he just laughed me straight out of the room . |
| 21 | ‘ Did Mrs Fairfax tell you I 've been to London ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 23 | All of the sample of Rowdies were able to plot very accurately where they had stood on the terraces over the last few years , who they had been with , and where they expected to be in the future . |
| 24 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 25 | After TB was diagnosed , he stopped work immediately and hospital staff set about contacting the 500 children and 500 staff who he had been in contact with him in the weeks before he became ill . |
| 26 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 27 | er when , mind you he 's been in his job for a while now . |
| 28 | I hope that Mr. Vance , with whom we have been in touch in the past 24 hours , will feel able in the light of his further explorations to suggest to the Security Council that a peace-keeping force should be sent . |
| 29 | Something you 've been through ? |
| 30 | Put it on the one we 're going to go through , or the one we 've been through ? |