Example sentences of "[vb base] been [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 2 | We 've been first in passenger satisfaction among major US airlines for the past 15 years . |
| 3 | So — ’ he pointed to the case , saying , ‘ I 've been next door and bought another dozen . ’ |
| 4 | They 've been next to my telephone for four weeks . |
| 5 | Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now . |
| 6 | Retail sales of the most vividly bloody ‘ red ’ meats have been first to suffer badly , but no one knows where it will end . |
| 7 | Just as in-service education does not work if it has not been tailored to match the stage or condition of the teacher who is to benefit from it , so the manager can not manage unless the method and style of management are acceptable and unless its purposes have been first unravelled and then knitted together after consultation between the manager and the manager 's colleagues . |
| 8 | But faded switches , pickup covers and so on have been next to impossible to find . |
| 9 | Pat smiled and replied , though she indicated by her manner that there was no reason why she should , " I have been next door twice . |