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

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1 The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak .
2 Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time .
3 All of them had been in there , seeing to their charges .
4 When the prisoners were moved , two of them had been in The Fleet for thirty years .
5 The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen .
6 Despite a review in 1989 , by the end of 1991 half of all senior registrars were accredited , one third of them having been in the grade for over six years .
7 Many of them have been about cost-per-copy or ‘ copy-plan ’ contracts .
8 Most of them have been about the health warning on the advertisement being obscured or obliterated , some have referred to their being too close to schools .
9 All of them have been at the centre of proposed part-exchange deals Souness was trying to set up this season to capture Nottingham Forest midfielder Roy Keane and QPR striker Les Ferdinand .
10 And I , I suspect that they 're on their way out because the way they leap and scream and bang and thump I should think that they , most of them have been on drugs .
11 Since most of them have been in the army of the Lord for many years , church members will no doubt want to give up their best rooms for these dear people .
12 Nor can the elvers have any memory of the smell of fresh water rivers , as salmon have , for none of them have been in one .
13 Choppy 's comments about schools in urban areas is quite interesting , because the first one was actually in Lincolnshire , which in no terms could be regarded as an urban area , and quickly looking down the list — and there are actually about sixty throughout the country — an awful lot of them have been in rural heartlands like Oxfordshire .
14 It was easy to pin-point the period of time within which the theft must have occurred , and not too difficult — was it ? — to find out where the great majority of you had been during the crucial forty-five minutes .
15 What I am going to focus on is this terrible guilt feeling which is coming out while you 're giving me all this information , and I can see one or two nodding heads , I guess , I guess some of you 've been in that situation .
16 A class of 35 senior school students was asked to answer the following questions : J ) How many of you have been to Jamaica ?
17 How many of you have been to County Court ?
18 And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all .
19 You know they 're they 're not just basic idiots but they really do something erm which can be quite fraught , and er there 's no doubt everyone of you have been in a situation created by another road user .
20 Certain types of groups only have one way of viewing problems as the right way to look at problems you don if any of you have been in the R C P , Revolutionary Communist Party , you might find that 's a fairly similar sort of thing there 's a party line and dimensions of what constitutes it .
21 Because you can never go back to yesterday , if you came in last year or five years ago , ten years ago or longer , some of you have been in the truth for many , many years and it is nearer now than it ever was when you first came along and joined Jehovah 's people and as it says the night is well along and if any of us have ever worked on the night shift , I think we 're all well aware are n't we that when the night is well along and
22 But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan .
23 The fire-ball of anger inside her had flared into life , and she had flown at him , screaming — what , she could hardly remember , except that more than half of it had been in Greek .
24 They can now say that some of it has been in the ground for more than a million years .
25 If we consider the environment in the broadest sense , much monitoring of it has been in progress for many years and by an enormous diversity of organizations in the UK ; these include the DoE , the Forestry Commission , the Nature Conservancy , the Health and Safety Executive , local authorities , the component members of the Natural Environment Research Council ( such as the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology and the British Antarctic Survey ) , individuals or research groups in academia , the CEGB , the Friends of the Earth , and UK Centre for Economic and Environmental Development ( CEED ) ( 1989 ) .
26 Much of it has been in the nature of self-examination : not least because the achievement of a high rate of economic growth became the central aim of political endeavour .
27 None of us had been outside the camp for many months and every field seemed infinite and exciting .
28 Most of us have been with our artists a very long time .
29 Some of us have been in here that long , we could have to be treated for exposure
30 The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little .
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