Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] been [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After graduating from Bristol University , where she had been President of the Students ' Union , Sue joined the Thomson Organisation as a trainee reporter on the Western Mail and South Wales Echo in Cardiff . |
| 2 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 3 | I should say in the context of the working of the Anglo-Irish Agreement that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Minister for Defence for the Republic of Ireland taken part in the conference . |
| 4 | I have just said that at no stage during the time that I have been Secretary of State has the Irish Defence Minister taken part in any conference talks . |
| 5 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period . |
| 6 | Every year that I have been Minister with responsibility for housing — it is now six years — the Housing Executive has suggested an amount which it hopes that the Government will give it , while knowing perfectly well that it will not get all that it asks for . |
| 7 | A 15-year-old Darlington girl admitted yesterday that she had been part of a gang which broke into the town 's Salvation Army Hostel . |
| 8 | ‘ Go up ! ’ he hissed anxiously , hoping he 'd not be heard ; horrified that she had been witness to Gosse 's death . |
| 9 | On July 19 three of the original five asylum seekers told Cuban television that they had been part of a plot hatched by diplomats from the US Interests Section and from the Czechoslovak , West German and Canadian embassies , all of whom denied the allegation . |
| 10 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 11 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 12 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 13 | It was known that he had been archbishop of Canterbury between 1006 and 1012 , and that he had been killed by the Danes for refusing to pay Danegeld . |
| 14 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 15 | Another reflection of this could be the twelfth-century belief in the abbey of Ely , where Brihtnoth was buried , that he had been earl of Northumbria . |
| 16 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 17 | Once he had been chieftain over the lands which had been rewarded to Richard Carew for his services to Oliver Cromwell . |
| 18 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 19 | And I have been years on Bold injections and all the rest of it , and I know from experience you get , you deal with it , it does n't cure the disease but can you see you have a way of dealing with it , of coping with it , of helping yourself er c er do things and therefore you can |
| 20 | And she had been party to every stage of his renegotiations . |
| 21 | You should be , if you 've been party to extortion . |
| 22 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 23 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 24 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 25 | They used the Latin script , and they had been part of the western world from the time of the Roman Empire . |
| 26 | The Meikle family consists of David and Catherine , Robert ( 12 ) , Shona ( 7 ) and Johann ( 3 ) and they have been members of Kirkintilloch Baptist Church for four years . |
| 27 | There was so much to say , and if they 'd been face to face she would have poured it all out , but as it was … |
| 28 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 29 | In this case , space is left unused in the main data area when the file is created , and additions are located on the same cylinder ( IBM ) or seek area ( ICL ) that they would have occupied if they had been part of the file when it was created . |
| 30 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |