Example sentences of "[pron] have been [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 3 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 4 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 5 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 6 | It 's a novelty , and I 've been with animals all my life . |
| 7 | I 've never told any of my girlfriends that I 've been with prostitutes because I know they would be horrified . |
| 8 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
| 9 | I 've been on tablets all night . |
| 10 | But er put it this way , I 've been on courses , like I would n't I use it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 12 | When are we gon na have rules revisions , there 's a long way to go and as the , the er General Secretary said , be careful , because I 've been to talks with , on , from the Regional Committee with the T & G yes we got on lovely with them , they 're fine , they , they gave us a nice big er commemorative medal of the dockers ' strike and it 's got my granddad and my great granddad on it cos they was there in the other union mind you while we 've done all the striking and that they stood by , but nevertheless they 're not bad lads anyway and as John said we must be careful that we are not the ones that are gon na be taken over , because I remember that old song of the fifties , never smile at a crocodile |
| 13 | As she turned to serve the impatient customer she added : ‘ I 've been in palaces and kings ' houses , Mr Stone . |
| 14 | I 've been in hurricanes on the Florida Keys and there 's plenty of time to flirt around with fear . |
| 15 | I 've been in ages . |
| 16 | Oh I 'm alright , I says to him , I 've been in ships and . |
| 17 | I 've been in digs |
| 18 | I 've been in digs where you went to bed and you 've had to put your top coat on the bed . |
| 19 | I 've been in police custody for the last thirty-six hours . |
| 20 | I have been to funerals in Baldersdale where bereaved people have shown supreme faith , being convinced that death is only a temporary thing and that they would meet up with their loved ones again . |
| 21 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 22 | I have been on ones of 100,000 acres . |
| 23 | So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes . |
| 24 | I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been in pubs and guys have come along and said — ‘ It is you , is n't it ? |
| 26 | One of its Knesset members is in prison for stealing from its own coffers , another has been charged with cooking the books and Mr Deri himself has been under police investigation for suspected financial irregularities for more than two years . |
| 27 | This process directly undermined the rule of law : ‘ such transference of authority saps the foundation of that rule of law which has been for generations a leading feature of the English constitution . ’ |
| 28 | X/Open , which has been in negotiations with OSF for over a year now , was supposed to have incorporated DCE into its Common Applications Environment some time ago : that announcement is also on ice until the two can work something out . |
| 29 | ‘ Then there 's a small matter of your presence at two locations within a week which have been under police surveillance . |
| 30 | Those on the list are : Mr Sisulu , sentenced with Mr Mandela to life imprisonment in the ‘ Rivonia Trial ’ of 1964 ; four other Rivonia triallists - Raymond Mhlaba , Elias Motsoaledi , Andrew Mlangeni , Ahmed Kathrada , Wilton Mkwayi and the oldest of them all , 80-year-old Oscar Mpheta , a trade union leader who has been behind bars since 1980 , and whose whose sentence runs out next year . |