Example sentences of "been [prep] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |
| 2 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 3 | He had expected that any change in his routine would have been of his own making , not hers . |
| 4 | ‘ You , that have not been near me all day , and would n't have been if I was dying ! ’ |
| 5 | She 's been like it all weekend I think . |
| 6 | Oh it would be really nice you know , especially for the supporters that 's been behind us all season , so hopefully we can do it for them . |
| 7 | Horrible thoughts of death , and blood , have been with me all day . |
| 8 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 9 | Now , if any of your other readers have been with you that length of time then , like me , they will have seen many changes in the magazine in terms of staff , reviews , layout and style . |
| 10 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 11 | Clearly taken aback by the striker 's impudence , the referee replied ‘ I 'm Mr Fogg ’ , to which Gallacher speedily replied ‘ Aye and you 've been in one all afternoon . ’ |
| 12 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |
| 13 | Howard is relieved and pleased that his younger self could pass such a test ; to have been in his own company for fifteen minutes or more , and to have been so opaque and convincing that he 'd seemed to be like anyone else . |
| 14 | It made me realise what a coward I 've been over my own problem . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been on it all day and it hurts . |
| 16 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 17 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 18 | The prisoner has been at his own trial and he already knows , or has had access to , all the evidence and all that was said . |
| 19 | She 's been at it all afternoon . ’ |
| 20 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 21 | ‘ Sorry , but I 've been at it all day . ’ |
| 22 | bloody hell , that must of been hard work that , they must of been at it all day |