Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 2 | Between Belturbet and Cavan Town ( where I had been before ) , Lough Erne fragmented into a series of lakes , with strange names such as Lough Parisee . |
| 3 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 4 | To comfort her desolation and guilt Rachel had told her about the Mongolian desert , where she had been as a little girl , hardly older than Maggie was now , to look for dragons , which she called dinosaurs , and where years later Russian palaeontologists had found the great fossil eggs in which the sleeping baby dinosaurs could still be seen . |
| 5 | John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened . |
| 6 | Back in the main sitting room where she had been at first she was introduced to Antonietta 's husband Gennaro who was the head of the household . |
| 7 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 8 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 9 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 10 | Consultation with the next of kin has a further advantage in that it may reveal information as to the personal circumstances of the patient and as to the choice which the patient might have made , if he or she had been in a position to make it . |
| 11 | We must ensure that hospitals have well thought out discharge plans for every individual , whether he or she has been in hospital for five years or just five days , and that follow-up and after-care services are available for a lifetime if necessary . |
| 12 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 13 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 14 | I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years . |
| 15 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 16 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 17 | The majority of the contracts have been awarded to Northern Ireland institutions and where they have been with other institutions it has been the policy of the Panel to encourage the employment of junior Northern Ireland based researchers on the projects . |
| 18 | ‘ Degas to Matisse : The Maurice Wertheim Collection from the Harvard University Art Museums ’ ( 14 February-25 April ) comprises forty-three representational works of consistent high quality , collected by New York investment banker Maurice Wertheim , and bequeathed in 1950 to his alma mater , where they have been on display since 1974 . |
| 19 | The textiles themselves are normally known as a result of being preserved by corrosion , where they have been in contact with metal objects in graves ; wood and leather are often preserved in the same manner . |
| 20 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 21 | Capt. Eliecer Gaitán , the security chief under Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega , was reported to have escaped on Sept. 16 from the apostolic nunciature in Panamá City , where he had been in refuge since Dec. 23 following the US invasion . |
| 22 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 23 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 24 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 25 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 26 | Or are you simply afraid to show openly what you can do where he 's been before you ? ’ |
| 27 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 28 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 29 | IN MID SEPTEMBER , 28XX class No.3822 returns to the Great Western Society from the West Somerset Railway where it has been on loan since March 19th this year . |
| 30 | To forecast where the economy is heading , economists need information on where it is now , and where it has been in the recent past . |