Example sentences of "have been [prep] [noun prp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 2 | Ianthe remembered that Miss Grimes had been to Spain for her holiday one year , but she supposed that she must have bought the wine specially when Ianthe had said she was coming to see her . |
| 3 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 4 | In this connection it was agreed that Christine should add the names and addresses of those who had been at Carberry to her database . |
| 5 | Cameron did not mind about that , even when Harvey Broadribb , who had been at Juillard with him , won the Academy Award for his work on the movie . |
| 6 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
| 7 | Oh , he said , we 've been to Yorkshire for our honeymoon . |
| 8 | ‘ Mother 's been in Ireland since her first marriage . |