Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the fact that the Carews had been in Ireland since the middle of the seventeenth century , he still regarded himself as an expatriate living among a semi-barbarous people in a semi-barbarous land . |
| 2 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 3 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 4 | Before that Eva had been in Rhodesia , Margaret and her husband were doing medical missionary work in India , the boys had been in the Far East . |
| 5 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 6 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 7 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 8 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 9 | " All men fought ; all men in England had been to India for the duration of the last war , leaving behind them a country of women . |
| 10 | If Liam Brady had been at Windsor Park yesterday he would n't have hesitated to reach for his cheque-book . |
| 11 | An alternative to thinking that Harald had been in England since 1016 , and returned to Denmark with part of a disbanded fleet in 1018 , might be that he had in the interval been expelled from it , and sailed with the fleet in 1018 in an attempt to regain control . |
| 12 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 13 | Jackson had been in Singapore since Saturday , giving two concerts and enjoying a final day of relaxation that included a visit to the zoo and a meeting in his hotel with six orang-utans . |
| 14 | Helen had been with Culley long enough to recognize a red light . |
| 15 | Philip had been to Barry 's house once with his Mum . |
| 16 | Besides , Jessie had been with Marion for years , following her from production to production , doing sewing and little chores in between times when Marion was ‘ resting ’ . |
| 17 | Appiah had been in England from 1944 — 54 and married the daughter of Stafford Cripps . |
| 18 | Kendall had been at King 's Cross . |
| 19 | Since about 1938 Ho had been in China , first at the communist headquarters in Yenan then , apparently , with Chinese Nationalist forces , finally in Kwangsi and Yunnan which were close enough for him to attempt to resume contact with the Party inside Vietnam . |
| 20 | She knew Una had been with Con Gallagher , not with friends as her father and half-brothers thought . |
| 21 | I explained how by chance the Mantela had been in Sydney for a refit . |
| 22 | Three months Doña Ximena had been in Valencia , when tidings came to the Cid from beyond sea , that King Yucef , the son of the Miramamolin , who dwelt in Morocco , was coming to lay siege unto Valencia with fifty thousand men . |
| 23 | Mrs Goreng had been in Danu ten months , every one of which seemed a year to her . |
| 24 | This was the first time Athelstan had been to Benedicta 's house , a two-storied building which stood alone , an alleyway on either side and a garden beyond . |
| 25 | Mr Lewis had been to Spain |
| 26 | Not even Wallace had been to Bouton , and we were unable to find any reference to it in the literature . |
| 27 | He was also , as Peter Rogers put it , ‘ a bit of a show off ’ , discussing art and the world scene in an off-screen moment that was as different from a ‘ Carry On ’ routine as Moby Dick had been from Peter Pan . |
| 28 | The three wanted men were close friends from Armagh , and Duffy and Gorman had been in Derby with Magee for several weeks before Monday 's shooting . |
| 29 | In fact , Lazenby was hardly more wooden than Connery had been in Dr No . |
| 30 | There was a load of hay being stacked in the barn behind the office and where the BMWs had been on Saturday , a Range Rover and an old Daimler were parked , their windows in the process of being sponged down by a boy who looked vaguely familiar . |