Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I mean , maybe Scotland Yard have been in that area . ’
2 P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste .
3 And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) .
4 Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] .
5 " Yes , " said Clara , beginning to understand the nature of her mother 's satisfaction ; the lack of telephone of Mrs Hanney had been for some years a subject for discourse in a vein of amazed contempt .
6 The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance .
7 The work of Norman Shneidman has been of some value in highlighting the way in which sport in Soviet society is ‘ directed towards the all-round development of the human individual ’ ( 1979 , p.7 ) .
8 Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling .
9 Beryl Davies has been to several meetings of the Shropshire A. S. M. group .
10 That Ruby Wax 's been on this week has n't she ?
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