Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been to the Over-Sixties Club where they have some very good concerts and I go to services at Cotherstone Methodist Chapel whenever I can . |
| 2 | I have been to the Holy Land twice this year and have seen the appalling conditions Palestinians are living under . |
| 3 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 4 | His father said last night : ‘ I have been through the usual Foreign Office channels . |
| 5 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been in the 190s for more than a year , so I will be glad to get there , ’ said Dixon . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been in the Outer Darkness ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But without doubt he was the greatest player I have been in the same side with and he helped me improve myself no end . |
| 9 | I have been in the same circumstances myself , and it is no fun . |
| 10 | ‘ You have been to the Russian baths ? ’ |
| 11 | Whether you do n't know an opera at all or whether it is an old friend , you will still enjoy the show all the more if you have been to the pre-performance talk . |
| 12 | Once you have been through the various categories listed above and picked out all the names to be included next step is to arrange them in some sort of order . |
| 13 | If you are working fewer than 15 hours a week , you also have very few employment rights , until you have been in the same job for at least 5 years , working at least 8 hours a week . |
| 14 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 15 | When we have been on the losing side in county or Test cricket nothing has been said . |
| 16 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |
| 17 | In addition , the proximity of the Survey to the University ( they have been on the same site since 1975 ) led to contacts between their respective staffs , with a cross-fertilisation of ideas . |
| 18 | They have been over the greater part of Van Diemen 's Land and the Islands in Bass 's Straits and appear highly gratified with their peregrinations : a government vessel has generally been devoted to their use . |
| 19 | They have been over the past few days erm usually it was chocolate and apricot . |
| 20 | Bans had to be introduced to give the fish stocks time to recover , and they are better now in the 1980's than they have been since the mid-1960's . |
| 21 | Scoured as they have been by the turbulent and freezing sands that eroded every trace of fittings and furnishings whatsoever , their walls and ceilings do bear signs : remnants of incised and sometimes inlaid strings of rectangular shapes that numerous experts have confidently identified as writing , though no truly plausible translation has ever been constructed . |
| 22 | It is hard to be inactive when fell-walking , in Michael 's case , and swimming in mine have been among the greatest of pleasures . |