Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 2 | He has been at court , he is an educated man . |
| 3 | Do nt know about Strandli , but he has been on loan to Start ( Norway 1st Div side — where leeds bought him from ) . |
| 4 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 5 | He has always made it tough for me when he has been in contention but I can deal with that because I have confidence in my game . ’ |
| 6 | He has been in work constantly , either in lead roles in provincial theatre or at the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon , with occasional TV appearances in programmes such as Brookside . |
| 7 | He has been in contact with Eddy Shah , the former national newspaper proprietor ; Owen Oyston , who owns Manchester 's Piccadilly Radio and Blackpool football club ; and Amer Midani , the Lebanese-born director who is the second largest shareholder on the United board . |
| 8 | But it is the language of the statement and the comments attributed to Edwards that are likely to cause further friction between him and both local climbers — with whom he has been in conflict in the past — and the BMC . |
| 9 | ‘ As for Harry — he has been in love before . |
| 10 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 11 | Since then he has been in charge at Plymouth , Crystal Palace , Manchester City and Middlesbrough as well as managing abroad . |
| 12 | He has been in charge of professional advice on listed buildings since 1975 and was made Chief Inspector in 1988 . |
| 13 | He has been in charge of a three-part training course to introduce the game to school teachers and group leaders in the Middlesbrough area . |
| 14 | Granted , he has been in office a short while , and has had much to occupy him . |
| 15 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 16 | He has been in custody since . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ He has maintained a silence throughout the time he has been in custody . |
| 18 | ‘ His mental state has been very stable since he has been in hospital and there is no indication that it has deteriorated recently , ’ the spokesman added . |
| 19 | He has been in hospital for 14 months since being knocked out in a fight with Chris Eubank . |
| 20 | He has been in hospital since November , but has been told he must shortly return to prison ( see Replies , this page ) . |
| 21 | Though still the branch manager , he has been in hospital for nearly two months — in other words , since about the time the Kunitachi scandal surfaced . |
| 22 | said : ‘ This court has on numerous occasions held that the effect of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 is that the contemnor must be personally served with a properly drafted notice which recites in clear and unambiguous detail the following : ( 1 ) the order of the court or undertaking given to the court in respect of which he has been found in breach ; ( 2 ) the respects in which it is alleged that he has been in breach ; ( 3 ) the findings of the judge as to the alleged breaches ; ( 4 ) the period of committal to which he has been sentenced and ( 5 ) that he may apply to the court to purge his contempt and seek his release . |
| 23 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 24 | GIANNIA TSORTSOS : a 20-year-old student of computer science from Athens , he has been in prison since September 1991 for refusing on grounds of conscience to perform military service . |
| 25 | SELAHATTIN SIMSEK : a 37-year-old Kurdish school teacher , he has been in prison for more than 12 years . |
| 26 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 27 | As for the safety of the Zairean , I was glad to see that , in his judgment , Mr. Justice Brown said : ’ However , it is at least now clear that no irreversible damage has resulted from his removal on 1st/2nd May ’ — as he has been in touch with his solicitors both from Zaire and Nigeria since then . |
| 28 | He has been in touch with Greenalls who , in turn , have been pressing the contractor to compensate him . |
| 29 | Nigel will be just as safe in IndyCar racing as he has been in Formula One , if not safer . ’ |
| 30 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |