Example sentences of "[pers pn] been [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Had she been in any way party to that act ?
2 ‘ How long have you been with this company ? ’
3 Have you been at that gym tonight ?
4 When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour .
5 Have you been to that part there ?
6 Have you been to that place , Holiday Inn ?
7 Although Frank has been a director of Pearson since nineteen eighty six and those of you been to this meeting in the last few years will have seen him before I 'd like to introduce , ah , Frank to you in his new capacity Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Pearson .
8 The present crop of portrait painters is uninspiring : ‘ Have you been to any degree shows ?
9 So you been in all day ?
10 ‘ How long have you been in this field ? ’
11 It is helpful if the speaker has good articulation ( crisp consonants ) and is able to phrase sentences so that the key word or subject does not depend on a high frequency — for example , instead of saying ‘ Do you know Sussex ? ’ ( key word Sussex ) , they could say ‘ Have you been in this part of the world before ? ’
12 ‘ How long have you been in this job ? ’
13 So have you been in this business before ?
14 That 's him been in this post for twelve years ?
15 That it was a Saturday morning had made his presence possible — he would not have accepted the invitation had it been on some date in the week — and carriages had already piled behind one another in the main street ; evidently it was to be a large party .
16 Er what 's the atmosphere like in Belfast , what 's it been like this week ?
17 Has he been in all day ?
18 Has he been in all day ?
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