Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [pron] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gemayel had been in the pay of the CIA like King Hussein of Jordan who had been on the CIA 's payroll for 20 years . |
| 2 | The elvish song is only analogous to a hymn as Gandalf is analogous to an angel ; Elbereth too is unlike ( say ) the Holy Ghost in remaining visible , to elves , and rememberable as a being by those elves like Galadriel who have been across the Sea and met her . |
| 3 | And from the moment Mr Weintraub saw him in Spain he has been in someone 's company twenty-four hours a day . |
| 4 | He adds , ‘ Whereas in other countries in Europe , EDS has grown through acquisition , in Spain it 's been through knocking on doors and selling the business . ’ |
| 5 | Whilst in Russia he had been in contact with representatives of the Russian Bible Society , and through them had learned of the monitorial system of schoolteaching pioneered by Lancaster and Bell in Britain . |
| 6 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 7 | Pray for the young people from QP who have been on mission or camp this summer . |
| 8 | It probably does n't figure among the world 's top ten sellers for databases , but in Britain it 's been in the top three for years . |
| 9 | By the time InterSpray arrived back in Southampton she had been at sea for 156 days , 14 hours and 9 minutes . |
| 10 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 11 | ‘ And since Sydney she 's been in Wellington , gaining experience as a programme manager . ’ |
| 12 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 13 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 14 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |