Example sentences of "[noun] have been [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 2 | Often the emphasis on shared values has been at its greatest in time of war or other national crisis . |
| 3 | We at Halpern and Woolf believe the recession has been with us for some months already ; the C B I takes the same view and they 're pressing for interest rate reductions now to restore business confidence . |
| 4 | Ray 's only other acting experience has been with his school plays . |
| 5 | He fled from persecution in Japan , where a gargantuan madness industry has been after him . |
| 6 | Ever since then , China in its many and varied aspects has been in my mind , and I believe it was on that Saturday morning in Aunt Janie 's potato patch that I first became interested in the Orient . |
| 7 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 8 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 9 | In that case , how does the hon. Gentleman explain how , under both the Labour Government and the Conservative Government , inward investment has been at its peak when there has been a floating currency , where that has been a possibility ? |
| 10 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 11 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 12 | Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days . |
| 13 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 14 | The teenagers had been on their way home from a party just after the outbreak of hostilities and , according to one military policeman , had tried to crash the road block , almost running down one of the MPs . |
| 15 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 16 | ‘ It is not very much , ’ concedes Anna Perry , ‘ which makes me wonder why so many of these porters had been with us for so long . |
| 17 | The Archdeacon did not , diplomatically , point out that the Bishop had not consulted Lord Dersingham when the living had been in his gift . |
| 18 | Moynihan had been in his time a University cox and a flyweight boxing blue , and barely came up to her elbow . |
| 19 | One evening , when Sorrel had been with us for about five years , Sally and I got ready to take her for her usual walk . |
| 20 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 21 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |
| 22 | Now , if any of your other readers have been with you that length of time then , like me , they will have seen many changes in the magazine in terms of staff , reviews , layout and style . |
| 23 | ‘ I further assert that these spores have been with us since the birth of mankind . |
| 24 | ‘ You mean those kids have been by themselves all the afternoon — just for the sake of a tea — or curling ? ’ |
| 25 | Tony and Jean have been in their present home for two years . |
| 26 | Electric cars have been with us as milk floats for many years . |
| 27 | ‘ Eh-up , Cupid 's been at it again , ’ Ben Bradshaw said in a lousy Yorkshire accent . |
| 28 | Now Molly 's been with her since she first got married , you know . |
| 29 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 30 | The boy has been in my custody since November . |