Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | My beloved 's been in this cupboard and messed it all up . |
2 | My aim has been in one respect identical to Paley 's aim . |
3 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
4 | Who will lose his legs — ‘ And sleep without his girl — ‘ ‘ My family have been through all this already . |
5 | But see what my reward 's been for those years spent glorifying God at my craft . ’ |
6 | Her employers had been in general the aspiring mothers of young daughters of tradesmen — the honest working citizens whom her father would have disparagingly stigmatised as ‘ cits ’ — hoping that a little of Theda 's quality might rub off on their uncouth girls to help them to an advantageous marriage . |
7 | The chances that he will get them out of a mire of their own making are as thin as their performances have been for most of the season . |
8 | It took a great deal of courage — and self-love — to admit that all her suffering had been in vain . |
9 | How texts achieve their effects has been of particular significance in the teaching of literature , including drama . |
10 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
11 | Her remark had been in bad taste , she acknowledged , but that was no reason for him to lay into her with yet another string of personal insults , all dished out in that patronising way that got her blood heated to boiling-point . |
12 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
13 | Impressive as its successes have been in such matters as the unravelling of the genetic code , nevertheless they represent only an infinitesimal step towards a complete account in conventional physical terms of even the simplest animal brain . |
14 | Her father had been in bleak despair , and Caroline had been dispatched to a childless relative for the duration of the trauma . |
15 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
16 | In time the Pomeranian Poles would have undoubtedly been absorbed into the German-language community as their forbears had been in previous centuries . |
17 | Two used coffee cups and an ashtray full of cigarette ends suggested that the two men who awaited their arrival had been in long and deep discussion . |
18 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
19 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
20 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
21 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
22 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
23 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
24 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
25 | Our talk has been of non-commuting observables or the Fourier analysis of wavepackets . |
26 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
27 | 'T IS true , our Sex has been from early Time |