Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 2 | He would have been very satisfied to know what a comfort Steven has been to our family , how understanding , how supportive a friend in time of need , a valuable help to us in everything from fixing the car , taking over day to day decisions affecting the business/work/ Annabelle 's job , to just being there when we wanted advice and assistance . |
| 3 | Hermanns has been with me for over twenty years ; he is the best recording engineer I know . |
| 4 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 5 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 6 | The interviewer , who should have kept her mouth shut , interrupted to ask whether or not Hyacinth had been with him at the Young Conservatives ' Ball . |
| 7 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 8 | Moynihan had been in his time a University cox and a flyweight boxing blue , and barely came up to her elbow . |
| 9 | If Dana had been with me , they would never have dared . |
| 10 | Tony and Jean have been in their present home for two years . |
| 11 | ‘ Eh-up , Cupid 's been at it again , ’ Ben Bradshaw said in a lousy Yorkshire accent . |
| 12 | Now Molly 's been with her since she first got married , you know . |
| 13 | Since the final Munro has been with you all the way along , it 's only here that you feel you are now finally making your way towards it and the conclusion of the walk . |
| 14 | But Mr Bond has been through it all before . |
| 15 | Benny had been in something of a fog since her visit to the museum . |
| 16 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 17 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 18 | Colin Youngs had been in his garden when he saw William Wray approach his friend and a scuffle start . |
| 19 | ‘ Your spy ? ’ she gibed , recalling that Cavell had been with her when another DJ had telephoned to ask her out to a street market that only operated at night . |
| 20 | Nancy had been at her wits ' end and nobody seemed able to help . |
| 21 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 22 | I do n't Pete 's been to me mum 's for about six months . |
| 23 | Historically , England have been at their best defensively with a solid centre-half , and a more mobile central defender/sweeper type player ( e.g. Moore/Charlton , etc ) . |
| 24 | In the three months Mrs Shephard 's been in her job Unemployment has climbed steadily . |
| 25 | Erm , Jane 's been with us now for eight months , and this is her , how many ? the sixth outfit she 's worked in . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |
| 27 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 28 | Mrs. Browne had been at their Mayfair flat and seen them all off together . |
| 29 | Since Java had been outside his area , Mountbatten had no intelligence about conditions there . |
| 30 | James Flemyng has been at my father , complaining about dirt in the water and the noise of the saws and axes . |