Example sentences of "[pron] have been [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 3 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 4 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 5 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 6 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |
| 7 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 8 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 9 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |
| 10 | Oh , I 've been with Joyce since then , when had , used to live at Southwold , or near Southwold , and eh , we used to go there and she , she got killed where all the , she had a , a garden wall of felt sort of Fred Flintstone one , and there was a bend on the Ipswich erm , oh Ipswich Lowestoft road , right where she had this cottage |
| 11 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been to Newark on a Friday night and stood in a line with others on a night shift at a w wooden hut in the yard whilst a clerk from the pay office came to meet us , the day shift finishing at er , say five o'clock . |
| 13 | I 've been to Cockermouth in a pony and trap ! " |
| 14 | Sergeant Flavell sounds a little odd when I talk to him and tell him I 've been to Jersey for the day but I 'm on my way back to Edinburgh . |
| 15 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 16 | I 've been in Denmark with Kent for 3 days to see our brother-in-law & niece ( ( 's sister died Oct , '91 of a second brain tumour ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been in Australia for the entire time . |
| 18 | ‘ It is part of the expectation of the President that I should be available to represent the Church , so I have been to Strasbourg to the European Parliament and also on visits to the churches in Nigeria and Kenya . |
| 19 | I have been to Shetland in various capacities . |
| 20 | Since beginning this letter I have been with Nansen in the Samara district , where the conditions are even worse than in Saratov , in spite of the very good work done by the ARA in Samara and by the Friends in Bouzoulouk . |
| 21 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 22 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 23 | I have been in London since February . ’ |
| 24 | The spectrophotometer designed by Dobson in the 1920s was greatly improved ( with the assistance of R. H. Kay ) , so that by the start of the international geophysical year in 1956 there were about fifty instruments in action , almost all of which had been to Shotover to be checked , calibrated , and compared with Dobson 's own instrument . |
| 25 | In fact , it barely sufficed to keep out reconnaissance sorties by the handful of French planes which had been in Verdun at the outset . |
| 26 | It was refused , and by mid-January Grobbelaar , who has been with Liverpool for nine years , was again Dalglish 's first choice . |
| 27 | Herrmann , a Wharton MBA who has been with Solbourne for the better part of a year , has a components background , having previously run Amphenol in Hong Kong . |
| 28 | Wooton , who has been with HCK for over six years , remains in place while terms of a settlement are agreed . |
| 29 | Jones , John Forman , James Hemphill and Haley Bulk Powder — names which will be familiar to anyone who has been with P&O for more than three years . |
| 30 | Stützer , who has been at Kamekestrasse since 1980 and whose programme consists mainly of sculpture , is , until 6 June , showing neo-Constructivist works by the Yugoslav-born sculptor Wasa Marjanov . |