Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Virtually everybody there had been held on remand or had been to prison before , so knew how the prison ran . |
| 2 | Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god . |
| 3 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 4 | They got ashore dry shod — as they described those landings in which you do not get your feet wet — but in these harsh conditions , Lieutenant Arthur Komrower suffered severe back and leg injuries when he was crushed between a rock and the 10-ton assault craft that had been on fire . |
| 5 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 6 | Moreover when the Iraqi First Corps swept up at Panjwin , they evicted Iranian forces that had been in possession since 1983 . |
| 7 | In 1860 Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners , who were then operating the ferries , issued metal discs stamped ‘ B'head Ferry ’ to annual contractors in place of the cardboard tickets that had been in use until then . |
| 8 | It is sad that in Britain we have lost most of our old heritage , but when I went to Ireland I was pleased to find that Yeats and others before him had rescued many of the stories and legends that had been in danger of being lost . |
| 9 | His relationship with Don Roberto had been strictly business and even that had been in abeyance since Trent 's posting to Ireland . |
| 10 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 11 | Wheeler said he had been a member of the force for twelve and a half years and had been on duty on the Docks since last August . |
| 12 | It was dark , and had been since mid-afternoon . |
| 13 | The necessity of constructing popular consent among the electorate was an important component of Conservative thought , and had been since extension of the franchise to sections of the urban working classes in 1867 . |
| 14 | Yet blind instinct told her that Rohan was her man , and had been since time began . |
| 15 | He had entered the police station in a storm of self-righteous protest and had been by turn hectoring , belligerent and spiteful . |
| 16 | The Wingti government also claimed that the army 's advance was largely unresisted and had been in response to the invitation of local chiefs . |
| 17 | The party had been the largest in parliament for most years until 1966 , and had been in government ( usually with the Social Democrats ) almost constantly until 1987 . |
| 18 | He had come from Bangladesh about three months previously and had been in school about two months . |
| 19 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 20 | Though only 53 , he had been associated with the School for 44 years , having been a pupil at Greek Street , and had been in charge of Greek since 1938 . |
| 21 | Zabaleta , 39 , known in ETA as Waldo , had been involved with ETA since he was a teenager and had been in charge of its itinerant commandos since 1984 . |
| 22 | Vu Oanh , 67 , and Le Phuoc Tho , 64 , were both elected to the secretariat in 1986 and had been in charge of mass mobilization and agriculture , respectively ; Pham Van Kai , 58 , the Soviet-trained Chair of the State Commission for Planning , was one of five southerners in the new politburo and a former mayor of Ho Chi Minh City ; Bui Thien Ngo , 62 , was Permanent Vice-Minister of the Interior ; Nong Duc Manh , 51 , a member of the Tay ethnic group and the first minority leader to be elected to the politburo , was head of the central committee 's commission for nationalities ; Pham The Duyet , 55 , was secretary of the Hanoi party committee and a former trade union leader ; Nguyen Duc Binh , 64 , was director of the Nguyen Duc Binh Institute for training party cadres ; Vo Tran Chi , 64 , was secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City party committee . |
| 23 | The defendant had been a director of plaintiffs for 13 years and had been in charge of the development and sales of a certain type of heater . |
| 24 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |
| 25 | Among the most prominent of Syrian political prisoners was Noureddin al-Atasi , who had immediately preceded Assad as President and had been in prison since 1970 . |
| 26 | Individual country quotas had last been agreed in Geneva on July 26-27 , 1990 , immediately prior to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37632 ] , and had been in disuse since then . |