Example sentences of "been [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Jane Starkie , she , she would have been in the frame had it not been for penalty points during the cross country course , for being a wee bit too slow .
2 Until now , Mr Major 's biggest fear has been of revenge attacks on the 2,400 British troops .
3 Although once most usually seen in winter , nearly all records since 1938 have been of passage birds at the coast .
4 Up to now , distribution has been via system integrators to the Federal and commercial markets , but it is now lowering retail prices for all its ViewStation FX Series of X terminals by 30% to 50% when it sells them direct .
5 This readiness to see a company that has been in state hands since 1922 pass into private , maybe foreign , ownership is rare .
6 And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing .
7 I have n't been in office systems for all that time .
8 The wild card in the race , Ross Perot , sent out word that he had no regrets about his longshot bid for the White House , which has been in Republican hands for 12 years .
9 We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves .
10 Unfortunately , there are too few reliable records to indicate how centralised the authority of this family might have been over Zealot contingents throughout the Holy Land .
11 So I was in at , at er Southwell when the job came on community affairs , I 've been on community affairs for the last four years .
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