Example sentences of "[been] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Over 20,000 people have now been through the Quality in action workshop and more than 2,500 managers through MQS . |
2 | If the Witch King had started this long war , Tethlis was determined to finish it , and he might have succeeded had it not been for the decline in power of the dragons . |
3 | For the next few minutes I had to put up with Sid 's reminiscences about how much worse it had been during the campaign in North Africa . |
4 | Part of today 's debate has been about an increase in unemployment which has hit this country like so many others . |
5 | The trend through evolution , however , has been towards an increase in size and complexity . |
6 | Compulsory ‘ liberal studies ’ was , however , not to remain a distinctive feature of CNAA degrees as they had been of the Diploma in Technology . |
7 | There are holes in your pullover , your Barbour is in the last stage of decrepitude and your trousers ca n't have been near a press in months . |
8 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
9 | He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show . |
10 | She had been in a squat in London but had thought it would be pleasant to have some sea air for the baby for the summer . |
11 | The corpse has been in a freezer in Hawaii since he died there in exile in 1989 . |
12 | I 've been in a sauna in London I belong to a health club there . |
13 | She had been in the clinic in Pennsylvania . |
14 | We 've been in the Burlington in Dublin , it 's gorgeous ! |
15 | He had never been to a theatre in London , but he knew now , after the performance she had given a few minutes ago , that Mother Bombie was the greatest actress in the world . |
16 | Thirty veteran officers from the Australian destroyer Warramungu had been to a re-union in Perth . |
17 | Alix 's godmother , also named Alix , had once been to a ball in Vienna . |
18 | I have n't been to a gym in ages , ’ Vitor said , and frowned as though the omission had only just occurred to him . |
19 | You said you had n't been to a gym in ages . |
20 | ‘ Mrs. Bonnard and I have been to a concert in Aldeburgh . ’ |
21 | I 've been to every chemist in town in search of these chemicals of his , but they were never right . |
22 | I reckons they 've been to the baths in Silchester Road . |
23 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
24 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
25 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
26 | He told US financial markets that have been on a roller-coaster in anticipation of his victory that although he had campaigned on a message of economic growth he understood the importance of stability . |
27 | He wanted to tell Charles , that he had , at last , been on a bus in Brighton . |
28 | Erika Barnes has been on the towpath in London to meet them |
29 | Living rough : Stewart has been on the streets in Edinburgh for three years , sleeping wherever he can find shelter and surviving on a mixture of benefits and begging . |
30 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |