Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 3 | Jill Jones seems to fall into that category ( she has been teaching for seven years ) . |
| 4 | She carries in her wings great power and mystery even though she has been cast in these Cages for so long . |
| 5 | She has been childminding for eight years now and has gained an extremely good reputation . |
| 6 | While fashion magazines announce that longer skirts are in style , the princess has again appeared in the multi-coloured striped skirt she has been wearing for more than a year . |
| 7 | She has , you see how she has been pushed into this position . |
| 8 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 9 | Ex-St Martin 's ( where she was often the only student in the life room ) , she has been painting for five years , mostly commissions which come from friends . |
| 10 | She has been included in many mixed shows and in 1990 held her first sell-out one-woman exhibition at The Scottish Gallery , London . |
| 11 | Moya , a seemingly relaxed woman in her forties , described her attacks , which she has been having for 20 years , as ‘ an enormous blackness and fear , like being held under water ’ . |
| 12 | Indeed , she has been described as one of the founders of modern British geography . |
| 13 | ‘ She has been missing for several days now and we are concerned for her safety , ’ said a Garston police spokesman . |
| 14 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 15 | With reference to War Office letter of 3rd March 1945 regarding your husband Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , I am directed to inform you that in view of the length of time which has elapsed since Lieutenant Cairns was reported missing , during which no news of him has been received from any source , the Department has reluctantly , and with deep regret , reached the conclusion that he lost his life . |
| 16 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 17 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 18 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 19 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 20 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 21 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 22 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 23 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
| 24 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 25 | He was jailed for two and a half years , to run consecutive to his present term , which means he has been sentenced to 21 years since 1973 . |
| 26 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 27 | He has been born into this world and gone straight to hell . |
| 28 | Questions relating to an offence may not be put to a person after he has been charged with that offence , or informed that he may be prosecuted for it , unless they are necessary for the purpose of preventing or minimising harm or loss to some other person or to the public or for clearing up an ambiguity in a previous answer or statement , or where it is in the interests of justice that the person should have put to him and have an opportunity to comment on information concerning the offence which has come to light since he was charged or informed that he might be prosecuted . |
| 29 | If a man has lost his employment and his wife , he has been charged with drunk driving and his blood tests show damaged liver function , one hardly needs to ask questions on his alcohol consumption and the answers are unlikely to be fully truthful in any case . |
| 30 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |