Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia .
2 What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years .
3 Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’
4 If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this .
5 Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new .
6 Appendix B. Right , Chris has already been through this part of it .
7 In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history .
8 In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history .
9 ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’
10 In a community like this the printed word has always been of more importance than to most of those whose access to books was very much easier .
11 ‘ That last has never been in any doubt .
12 yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road
13 At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months .
14 I 'd never been in this room before .
15 Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening .
16 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
17 ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ .
18 ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’
19 She had not been in that position .
20 ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury .
21 ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest .
22 Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one .
23 ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville .
24 And the unions had also been through this scene recently .
25 I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together .
26 I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’
27 And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’
28 Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together .
29 One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight .
30 If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else .
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