Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [pron] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |
| 2 | Er , the Magistrate 's Court I 've been to twice . |
| 3 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 4 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |
| 5 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 6 | The Portuguese took an action against Clerke in the High Court of Admiralty , supported by testimonies from an English ship 's master who had been at Fermeuse , though no conclusion to the action has been found . |
| 7 | The daughter of a woman with Huntingdon 's chorea who had been in a nursing home described the care she got there as |