Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noticed a sketch I had been doing of Miss Oliver , and could not take his eyes off it . |
| 2 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 3 | When Dalin and Rust were writing they pointed to a variety of stimuli for change : in the United States it had been competition with the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 5 | In Russia he had been expert with the knout , no less than the sword . |
| 6 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |
| 7 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 8 | For the past two years she has been Chairman of the ‘ Kent Teachers ’ and has also been a member of the Kent display Team since 1976 . |
| 9 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 10 | For seventy years we have been slaves to the tyrannical French . |
| 11 | Over the past six or seven years we have been victims of the city council 's urban regeneration strategy . |
| 12 | In his early days he had been clerk of the race-course , but is more well known as the fiery Salvationist he became after his conversion . |
| 13 | He did much hospital work : for several years up to his retirement he had been Chairman of the South West Regional Hospital Management Board and was an active hospital visitor . |
| 14 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 15 | This paper has largely been limited to the processes within education — the ways they have been part of a wider process of economic and political domination have been little more than hinted at . |
| 16 | In the past she has been secretary to Fred Shaw ( company secretary ) , Peter Williams ( finance director and deputy chairman ) , James Moffat ( company director and managing director ) , Paddy Byrne ( chief executive ) before becoming secretary to George Stonier 18 months ago . |
| 17 | Before he 'd interfered in her life she had been part of a team , doing a job that she enjoyed well . |
| 18 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |
| 19 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 20 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 21 | He usually comes to a struggling club with nothing to lose but this time he 's been part of the slump . |