Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
| 2 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 3 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ He has been in a lot of pain and this just puts the lid on it . |
| 5 | 103 youths were arrested in the first four weeks , but there are porblems , sometimes in radio communications and it has been at a cost . |
| 6 | So as I say , ours has been about a bit , it 's been borrowed by various people . |