Example sentences of "have [adv] been [prep] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relations between Egypt and Libya have been erratic since Colonel Gaddafi seized power 20 years ago , and he has not been to Egypt since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war . |
| 2 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 3 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 4 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
| 5 | We had all been in Hawaii with Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) taking part in the Crossroads Discipleship Training School , YWAM 's basic entry course for full time workers . |
| 6 | Nancy Ball had only been with Hugo for a few months and it was much longer than that since Harriet had visited him at the office . |
| 7 | It was chairman Lord Rees 's first visit to LASMO Colombia , while chief executive Chris Greentree had not been to Bogota for five years . |
| 8 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 9 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 10 | The speaker had not been in Lesotho as a tourist but as the representative of a road-building company on a contract funded by the World Bank . |
| 11 | I 've not been to London in twelve years . ’ |
| 12 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 13 | John Cleese and Eric Idle who had both been at Cambridge with him had had no idea . |
| 14 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 15 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 16 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 17 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 18 | For instance , before the war , it was reported that he was heard to say over the telephone , in reply to an invitation from a leading London hostess , ‘ I should especially like to come , as I have not been to Hampstead since 1916 ’ . |
| 19 | I do n't know if any of you have ever been to Newcastle before — if not , I 'd be happy to meet you at the station , or wherever , ( as long as it 's not too early in the morning ! ! ) , take you for a drink , and show you how to get to the ground . |
| 20 | It may seem from this book that the British have always been in Madeira in large numbers . |
| 21 | Elaine Fullard from Oxford , who has been influential in developing the role of nurse facilitators for prevention in primary care , and Anita Berlin from St Mary 's Medical School , who has a particular interest in teaching communication skills , have also been to Brazil as part of the programme . |
| 22 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 23 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
| 24 | For those who have n't been to Versailles for many years , there is now much more to see . |
| 25 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 26 | ‘ They told me I was in Thailand with him but I have never been to Thailand in my life . ’ |