Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [adv] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 2 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 4 | Dr Kallman has since been on another field trip to this area and is able to confirm the widespread range of this species throughout most of the small tributaries of the Rio Coatzacoalcos , and eastwards from Sarabia . |
| 5 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 6 | The Shah had repeatedly been to American during the last thirty years. ; he had been welcomed with full honours as not only an important chief of state by also a vital ally by every single president since Harry Truman . |
| 7 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 8 | Investors on Wall Street have rarely been in such an uncertain state — which means big money is about to be lost and won |
| 9 | Harry had not been in good shape in Jo 's memory . |
| 10 | Traditionally , Paris had always been in economic terms artisanal ; the average manufactory employed no more than three or four people , usually engaged in the long-established trades of furniture making or of printing , and factory industry was a rarity . |
| 11 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 12 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 13 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 14 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 15 | Appendix B. Right , Chris has already been through this part of it . |
| 16 | ‘ Ask him , ’ I said , ‘ if Sheridan Lorrimore has ever been in any trouble that he knows of , apart from assaulting an actor at Toronto , that should have resulted in Sheridan going to jail . ’ |
| 17 | So far Probyn has not been to impressed with the results . |