Example sentences of "[been] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxford Pest Control 's newest technician John Rilby had only been with the company four days but had already made his mark . |
| 2 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 3 | An aftermath of the season was the award of another benefit match , for the outside-left Croot , who had been with the club seven years . |
| 4 | We get people you say well I , you know somebody told me a couple of months back how to use the diary system by you know putting the note in and then dating it when you want to remind yourself been in the company ten years you know all this sort of stuff and it 's just useful bits you know the whole and all this sort of stuff . |
| 5 | They 're all trainees when you 've been in the company ten years , twenty years you can still be a trainee learning something new . |
| 6 | I have been in the company forty years . |
| 7 | The father had only been in the country six months and had no means of supporting his son . |
| 8 | He 's American and only been in the country two weeks . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd been in the country 2 years before being arrested and had gone to Goa to spend Christmas with friends . |
| 10 | Lazano , who has been in the force five years , will be sentenced on January 24 . |
| 11 | Lazano , who has been in the force five years , will be sentenced on January 24 . |
| 12 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 13 | That that er had been in the flat two days before . |
| 14 | that 's been in the fridge nine weeks |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been in the League five years and have decided now is the time to really go for promotion . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He had only been in the house four minutes at the most when he suddenly turned to me and said : ‘ Would you come to dinner with me tonight ? ’ . |
| 17 | He began , ‘ You have been in the House fifteen years and it 's time you were promoted … and I now want you to go to the Board of Education . |
| 18 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 19 | Rosenthal , who had only been on the field 15 minutes , made Barlow pay in full for his wastefulness yet Liverpool should not have had to wait so long to get their noses in front . |
| 20 | The subtitles are superfluous : it 's been on the telly umpteen times and the gestures say it all . |
| 21 | Eddie has been at the surgery 18 months and would not be able to survive in the wild . |