Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
2 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |
3 | Erm I 've been off work in excess of five years now er add my income has been very very small and whatever award I get will never go ahead and compensate me or my wife for what I 've been through . |
4 | Peter Holland Tyne Tees reporter : ‘ I 've been with TTTV in Middlesbrough for 18 years so my feelings are the merger should sort out the wasteful nonsense we 've had there doubling up on news stories . ’ |
5 | I 've been to Cockermouth in a pony and trap ! " |
6 | " No good , Peter — I 've been in court in far too many fraud cases . |
7 | I have been to funerals in Baldersdale where bereaved people have shown supreme faith , being convinced that death is only a temporary thing and that they would meet up with their loved ones again . |
8 | I have been to Shetland in various capacities . |
9 | Since beginning this letter I have been with Nansen in the Samara district , where the conditions are even worse than in Saratov , in spite of the very good work done by the ARA in Samara and by the Friends in Bouzoulouk . |
10 | And Salford-born Phelan , who has signed a five-year deal , admitted : ‘ My family and I have been through hell in the past couple of weeks and signing for City is such a relief . |
11 | She has been on holiday in Dorset ( with a friend who lives there ) , and in Shropshire and in Kent . |
12 | But if you 'd been in trial in America |
13 | She had been like clay in the hands of a master craftsman , and the most unpalatable knowledge was that she had n't had the strength to resist that breathtaking attraction . |
14 | And travelling is n't a problem — she 's been to conventions in America and on holiday to Denmark , France , Germany and Holland . |
15 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
16 | We had been on holiday in Scotland and I was doing the washing on the Monday when suddenly a huge black cloud seemed to descend — a mass of fear , anxiety and utter depression . ’ |
17 | I hope that Mr. Vance , with whom we have been in touch in the past 24 hours , will feel able in the light of his further explorations to suggest to the Security Council that a peace-keeping force should be sent . |
18 | She could not help but pause in her misery to be proud of the fact that , without her supervision , they had been at work in the garden . |
19 | They have been in operation in the Southern Hemisphere since the beginning of June . |
20 | But it is the language of the statement and the comments attributed to Edwards that are likely to cause further friction between him and both local climbers — with whom he has been in conflict in the past — and the BMC . |
21 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
22 | He had been through hell in the course of duty ; he had made sacrifices that would be asked of no other human being . |
23 | He had been on duty in a trailer outside the shop in Ilminster , Essex . |
24 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
25 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
26 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
27 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
28 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |