Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 2 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 3 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 4 | I have been talking to one or two members of s staff at a fairly low level over the last week . |
| 5 | Erm , are now in the process of following up to see if who has made er the switch to the new regime , and I have been approached by one project leader who has two programmers who refused to change , and has asked for help . |
| 6 | Indeed , she has been described as one of the founders of modern British geography . |
| 7 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 8 | Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square . |
| 9 | But , flicking her glance away from him when he caught her looking at him , she formed the view that she must have gone a little light-headed with the guilt of her conscience , because it seemed to her that since knowing him she had been visited by one strange thought or feeling after another . |
| 10 | She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties . |
| 11 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 12 | For too long now , she had been starved of one particular need , the kind a respectable woman should not dwell on for too long , a deep-down need that only a man could satisfy . |
| 13 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 14 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 15 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 16 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 17 | 2.5 Whilst the foregoing factors have created the need for more language teachers — teachers , moreover , who have been trained to cope with new challenges — the supply has been falling , to the point where they have been labelled in one study ‘ an endangered species ’ . |
| 18 | In England sea urchins are especially easy to collect from the Cretaceous chalk , where they have been used as one of the fossils for dating the rocks . |
| 19 | It has been cited by one analyst as ‘ the green stock par excellence ’ . |
| 20 | My sense of honour and enjoyment in taking part in it has been enhanced by one sentimental memory . |
| 21 | It has been suggested by one author that , for instance , written records of staff training should be kept . |
| 22 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 23 | That is why it has been hyped as one of the countless holy grails of science . |
| 24 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 25 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 26 | It had been thought at one time that the restriction did not apply to an attack on members of a party as a whole , or where the motive was simply the provision of information and not the demoting of a candidate , but Luft adopts an extensive interpretation of the scope of the provision . |
| 27 | She had been right in her assumption about the photograph — she was sure now that it had been taken at one of those supper parties , and without prior warning . |
| 28 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 29 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 30 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |