Example sentences of "[been] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We 'd have only been off duty together during Dave Mason 's nights on call . |
| 2 | This port was frequently a target for Iraqi attacks , if only because of the intermittently suspended Japanese-Iranian petrochemical plant which had been under construction there for some years . |
| 3 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 4 | His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet . |
| 5 | I 've been in London now for two months . |
| 6 | They have been in Perth now for nine years and in business as McKays for three , providing , as Lesley McKay explained , ‘ accounting services to companies that have grown big enough to need an accountant or finance director , but not big enough to afford one full-time ’ . |
| 7 | He had been in court before on charges of violence but never for anything like murder . |
| 8 | Negotiations had been in progress sporadically since the 1970s and covered property in the areas of East Prussia , eastern Poland , the Baltic states and Bessarabia occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | A person who has the right to immediate possession of the land and enters in exercise of that right , is then deemed to have been in possession ever since the accrual of the right of entry . |
| 10 | Autocover , our Motor Insurance Scheme has been in operation now for over eleven years . |
| 11 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 12 | Of the two , Mr Yates , who will be 81 in November and has been in Congress almost without a break since he was first elected in 1948 , had the easier time of it . |
| 13 | Policies with prefix letters PM or FM ( Motor Car ) , MC ( Motor Cycle ) or CM ( Commercial Vehicle — excluding policies numbered lower than 100,000 ) will qualify for a Special Discount of just under 6% where the policies have been in force continuously for at least three years when they are renewed during the year commencing 1st July 1981 . |
| 14 | At the beautiful ridge-top site of Phourni , above the Minoan town of Arkhanes , there is an extraordinary Minoan mortuary-complex which seems to have been in use continuously from 2500 to 1250 BC ( Plate 19 ) . |
| 15 | He 'd been in custody there for nearly thirty six hours altogether . |
| 16 | The canal engineer William Jessop was largely responsible for this pioneering work which had been in prospect ever since the Stuart period . |
| 17 | MGM , which made such classics as Gone With the Wind and The Wizard Of Oz , has been in turmoil ever since being bought by controversial Italian financier Giancarlo Parretti last year . |
| 18 | We 've been in flowers most of our lives but not demonstrating , which we 're finding a bit , a little bit er different . |
| 19 | she 's only been to work once since Christmas , she went erm last Friday |
| 20 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 21 | Anne had been to tea again at the Redmond house and this time John was at home . |
| 22 | Have you been to Madeira again over the holiday ? ’ |
| 23 | Four planes have been on standy here for a number of days . |
| 24 | Erm that in fact er whether it 's been on board accurately by the report er or not is , is a matter for er question , but it was something that they bore in mind when they where reaching their conclusion , so they believe that they have taken it into account . |
| 25 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 26 | I mean they 've been on strike now for six months . |
| 27 | The two men already there had been on duty now for two hours . |
| 28 | Early on the following day a Lithuanian who had been on duty alone at a nearby post was found shot dead in what some reports suggested might have been revenge for the death of the Byelorussian . |
| 29 | The rest has been on average just over one gramme . |
| 30 | Well I actually been on commission only before er Yellow Pages when I started with well a |