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

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1 I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby .
2 ‘ Of course I have been through my brother 's documents , household accounts , memoranda and letters .
3 Up our way , they all give you feedback , like you know , several branches in like , the North , every branch I 've been into , there 's always been positive feedback , and negative and positive .
4 During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation .
5 She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker .
6 Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French .
7 If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end ,
8 The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before .
9 Houses are no longer the gold-plated investment they have been since the war .
10 worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody !
11 All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband .
12 Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days .
13 Since a success with Corydoras panda I have been on the lookout for other species of catfish to work with so I gratefully headed home with my new charges .
14 THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in .
15 You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me .
16 The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that .
17 It must have been the boarding-school she had been to which determined her voice , affected , sharp , shrill .
18 And she forced herself to add , ‘ I 'll tell her what a good girl you 've been in cleanin' me place for me . ’
19 ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before .
20 You see the individual patient 's dilemma , we 've got no problem with the loner who comes for individual psychoanalysis they have been on their own th there 's no problem there , but but what about the group analytic situation ?
21 Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety .
22 In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century .
23 Write a report of between 1000 and 1500 words on your last period of work experience with particular emphasis on the benefit it has been to you .
24 ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . )
25 In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes .
26 Yet it would seem that Lenin well understood the kind of mediation that would be required between bureaucracy and the working class and that this is shown by his emphasis on the need to prevent the bureaucracy emerging under socialism as the privileged social stratum it had been under capitalism .
27 Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her .
28 Every waking moment I 've been on the watch — ’
29 The other place I 've been to is Thailand , where prostitution is blatantly up-front and hard to avoid .
30 I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt .
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