Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " 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 | So David had been on duty this morning , had he ? |
| 3 | The PDC had been in opposition since leaving Endara 's government in April 1991 ; Arias had remained in the constitutional post of First Vice-President without attending Cabinet meetings . |
| 4 | The government were not reassured to learn that Branson had been in consultation with Robert Beckman , the New York lawyer who was fighting the anti-trust action on Laker 's behalf . |
| 5 | Mr Trelawney had been to sea before and knew enough to be useful , and one of the men , Israel Hands , was a careful and experienced seaman who was able to help with almost anything . |
| 6 | When Les Dawson was a guest on the show , we discovered that he and Ken had been at school together , and Les could not resist reminding him of those happy days : ‘ The school we went to was so poor , if you put your hand up they thought it was a hold up . |
| 7 | Miloš knew that Karadjordje had been in contact with the representatives of the Greek nationalist organisation Philike Hetairia ( Society of Friends ) , which was planning a general rising of all the sultan 's Christian subjects . |
| 8 | In the old days , he and his brother Josh had been in charge of the Punishment Squad . |
| 9 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 10 | Paul Gascoigne 's career and his hugely expensive transfer to Lazio had been in doubt ever since his disastrous knee injury in last year 's FA Cup Final , but the night club fracas which brought about a further fracture made a successful recovery look still less likely . |
| 11 | Areas around Ramallah and el-Bireh had been under curfew since the killing of a settler at the beginning of the intifada [ see pp. 35856-61 ] . |
| 12 | Ireland had been in rebellion for eight years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mrs Bennet had been into town and brought back details of the damage . |
| 15 | Shelter 's research has found up to half of all homeless young people in Scotland had been in care , but only 34 per cent of district councils categorise them as vulnerable . |
| 16 | A customs officer involved in the case said Mr Bradburn had been under surveillance for weeks when he was arrested . |
| 17 | Hugh had been with NLS for some nine years but unfortunately developed a heart condition which left him unable to drive at work . |
| 18 | Dexter , 57 , was the first chairman to be paid when he took over in March 1989 after Peter May had been in charge for seven years . |
| 19 | In a national address on television on March 4 , Aylwin rejected the claims of Pinochet and his supporters that Chile had been in state of civil war and that human rights violations were an inevitable cost . |
| 20 | Detective Chief Inspector John Leicester Finch and Detective Constable Robert Turner had been on trial for eighteen days at Luton Crown Court . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't suppose I 'd have done so well if Maggie had been in charge ’ he was a Minister in the Wilson government . |
| 22 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | Kayley had been under observation by Nurse Motley and Beverley Allitt , 24 , who denies murdering four child patients and attempting to murder nine others , including Kayley , at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital in Lincolnshire in 1991 . |
| 26 | Tracey Cole had been at Oxford University for just eight days when her body was found in her study bedroom at Oxford University . |
| 27 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 28 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 29 | The Paris conference where she had met Fergus had been on Gender and the Autonomous Text . |
| 30 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |