Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The black population has been under police surveillance for a long time . |
| 3 | It was the first time Ingrid had been under small-arms fire . |
| 4 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 5 | A police spokesman confirmed Donald Murphy had been in police custody since last Friday . |
| 6 | I 've been in police custody for the last thirty-six hours . |
| 7 | ‘ Then there 's a small matter of your presence at two locations within a week which have been under police surveillance . |