Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a further blow for Adolph Zukor ; both Arbuckle and Taylor had been under contract to him . |
| 2 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 3 | She and Sarah had been to the cinema the previous night and when the air raid warning sounded some people had left but most stayed . |
| 4 | The laboratory of Davy and Faraday had been like a large kitchen of the early nineteenth century . |
| 5 | And Marie 's been in there and seen it . ’ |
| 6 | After making a living in London and Scotland the family moved to Spennymoor in 1905 and Coias have been in the town ever since . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Actually , there 's quite a good exchange on those lines in Catch-22 , the movie — much underrated film — which is n't in the book , so Buck Henry must have written it , where Nately 's been killed and Yossarian 's been to Milo 's whorehouse to see Nately 's whore and Milo 's picked him up in the half-track and he 's saying Nately died a rich man ; he had such-and-such a number of shares in M&M enterprises , and Yossarian says — ’ |
| 10 | A mole working inside Cranborne School had supplied them with a mailing-list of all Muslim parents whose children had been rejected by ‘ This is a Christian Country ’ Gyles , the Junior School headmaster , and Robert and Maisie had been through the telephone directory , picking out anyone with a Muslim-sounding name . |
| 11 | No one could tell she and Nevil had been in it . |
| 12 | Tony and Jean have been in their present home for two years . |
| 13 | Leith and Sebastian had been in their flat a month when Sebastian declared it was time they had a flat-warming party . |
| 14 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 15 | Once Dolly and Gertrude had been in the back row of the chorus at the Palladium , and Gertrude had even had a solo spot with a comic song … he had seen a photo of her somewhere as Burlington Bertie … |
| 16 | Brian , you and Kerrie have been in temporary accommodation since January 1991 . |
| 17 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 18 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 19 | Brussels , Copenhagen , Strasbourg , Madrid , Heraklion and Cambridge have been among the front runners of 48 competing cities . |
| 20 | I remember one British Open at Turnberry , we were playing the 16th and Tom had been in a burn . |
| 21 | She could wake up and find that it was still the night of their parents ' wedding , that only that afternoon she and Stephen had been on the train . |
| 22 | A magnificent example of the ‘ Paxford says ’ routine is provided when Maureen and Minto have been into Oxford to get two wireless sets on approval . |
| 23 | She and Havvie had been to a flower show . |
| 24 | Arthur and Fred had been to school together . |
| 25 | He and Elinor had been to the council offices and I had still not come home when they got back . |
| 26 | One of which was the property in Frinton which was owned jointly by Mr and his step mother who was an elderly lady who was then residing in that er property and er around that time on the first of October Mr er telephoned Mr and er told him about that but at that time , was not anticipating that there would be an difficulties about the security on Frinton for these he had always , added his case , made it perfectly clear to the man at the National Westminster Bank with whom he was dealing , Mr that that property was not a property which er could er be offered as security because of the joint ownership and er while in conversation with the bank he understood that this letter had been sent and Mrs had been on holiday and that it was simply oversight on the part of the bank at this stage and that all would well after Mrs returned , which was expected in two weeks time . |
| 27 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 28 | The Divas manager Alan Cutler says Dee and Rose had been on the verge of a wonderful career . |
| 29 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 30 | First , The World Bank estimates that between 90 and 95 per cent of public investment in agriculture since World War II in Mexico and Peru has been in irrigated agriculture , and practically none in watershed management . |