Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a novelty , and I 've been with animals all my life . |
| 2 | I 've never told any of my girlfriends that I 've been with prostitutes because I know they would be horrified . |
| 3 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
| 4 | I 've been on tablets all night . |
| 5 | But er put it this way , I 've been on courses , like I would n't I use it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 7 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 8 | As she turned to serve the impatient customer she added : ‘ I 've been in palaces and kings ' houses , Mr Stone . |
| 9 | I 've been in hurricanes on the Florida Keys and there 's plenty of time to flirt around with fear . |
| 10 | I 've been in ages . |
| 11 | Oh I 'm alright , I says to him , I 've been in ships and . |
| 12 | I 've been in digs |
| 13 | I 've been in digs where you went to bed and you 've had to put your top coat on the bed . |
| 14 | I 've been in police custody for the last thirty-six hours . |
| 15 | I have been to funerals in Baldersdale where bereaved people have shown supreme faith , being convinced that death is only a temporary thing and that they would meet up with their loved ones again . |
| 16 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 17 | I have been on ones of 100,000 acres . |
| 18 | So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes . |
| 19 | I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been in pubs and guys have come along and said — ‘ It is you , is n't it ? |
| 21 | I know that you 've been through husbands until now th y y , the feller you 're living with , your seventh husband is not e , you 're e actually married to him . |
| 22 | You ca n't do , not when you 've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is . |
| 23 | I would have thought that you 'd be delighted to invite Calder back just to put your views across again , even though there is n't anything between you both , as you 've been at pains to tell me ! ’ |
| 24 | Then she said , ‘ You 've been on nights too long . ’ |
| 25 | You mentioned Stanford Hall then and you 've been on courses at Stanford |
| 26 | Oh you 've been to solicitors this morning ? |
| 27 | When you 've been around guys like Mr. B. awhile , you get to thinking the way they think . |
| 28 | We 've been in flowers most of our lives but not demonstrating , which we 're finding a bit , a little bit er different . |
| 29 | We have been to clubs , those dancing tornedoes , those ricocheting bodies under mad silver strobes , those siren samples , those scratch mixes , ‘ CAN YOU FEEL IT ? ! ’ crying over and over again . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |