Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the Ffestiniog bid to take over the moribund Welsh Highland company in a High Court action various schemes have been mooted including one by the FR to re-open the Welsh Highland from the north end and the long cherished target of taking the line through to within yards of the tourist attraction , Caernarfon Castle . |
| 2 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 3 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 4 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 5 | But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ . |
| 6 | All the same , he had a feeling of guilt as if he had been accused of something in the middle of a bad dream and , waking , could not remember what it was . |
| 7 | On another machine I had , which was operated in a rather dusty atmosphere , an intermittent failure report from the operating system seemed totally inexplicable except for a light layer of dust which had been deposited over everything inside the system box . |
| 8 | The hon. Member 's limited range of adjectives will have been noted by everyone in the House . |
| 9 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 10 | Perhaps the oddest feature connected with the cemeteries is that no evidence has ever been found for one outside the East Gate . |
| 11 | In the short space of time she had been in the ATS she had become aware how easily she attracted the opposite sex , a power which did not appear to have been conferred in anything like the same degree on her contemporaries . |
| 12 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 13 | L.G. said it must have been sent by someone in the audience who could write shorthand . |
| 14 | When the meal was over and the tables had been cleared of everything except the wine and the cups , one of the Altun stood up . |