Example sentences of "been [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ And , Sir Richard , ’ Cranston continued , ‘ you have now been through all the memoranda , documents , household books and accounts in your brother 's possession . |
| 3 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 4 | ‘ Hopkins 's sister is a widow and has been for many a year , ’ the fellow replied . |
| 5 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 6 | " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . " |
| 7 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 8 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 9 | " Employment on the railways as in other sections of the transport industry can not be said to have been of such a character as to fit in with the theory of labour aristocracy . " |
| 10 | The conduct had also to be intended to provoke a breach of the peace or to have been of such a nature as to have been likely to have occasioned such a breach . |
| 11 | Been like that a couple of days . |
| 12 | In the past month in here , well , it 's been like that every day . |
| 13 | Resenence Jeopardy still expected him to work hard , was still friendly and attentive , but had n't he been like that the day before ? |
| 14 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 15 | This is not , as it might have been with such a tale , the cuckolded merchant , but rather Margery , the stupid wife , who is particularly funny because she is so unthinkingly conventionally good and who effaces any real self she may be imagined to have within a cluster of clichés . |
| 16 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 17 | The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all . |
| 18 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 19 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 20 | Even more exhilarating was the fact that already his ambitions as a choreographer were making progress : ‘ I have been in such a state lately ! |
| 21 | Why had Carmen been in such a hurry ? |
| 22 | She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris . |
| 23 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 24 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 25 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 26 | hold a position of responsibility within the industry and have been in such a post for at least two years |
| 27 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 28 | I 've probably been in all the shops down there but I , I do n't know what the name is . |
| 29 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 30 | I see Chummy has been round all the desks . ’ |