Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently read an assessment report which stated , ‘ Her mother seems to have disappeared and has n't been heard of for six months . |
| 2 | Although a form of peace had been agreed upon on 28 May 1258 , it was not until 4 December 1259 that Eleanor de Montfort actually accepted the renunciations and agreed that she would not revive her claims to her French lands . |
| 3 | At the centre , community care has been talked of for thirty years and in few areas can the gap between political rhetoric and policy on the one hand , or between policy and reality in the field on the other hand , have been so great . |
| 4 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 5 | This can be confusing ; it would have been nice if each topic could have been dealt with in one place only . |
| 6 | British restaurant cooking had been despaired of after fifteen years of siege conditions until the counter-attack of The Good Food Guide , founded in 1951 by Raymond Postgate , a pioneering bon vivant , and compiled by himself , his friends and any members of the public who could be bothered to write in with their recommendations ( one who did was a lion tamer ) . |
| 7 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |