Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 2 | Well I 've been in eighteen below zero |
| 3 | Oh yeah I 've been in one of them . |
| 4 | I 've been in one of the houses , that 's how I know it was big , before it was done up . |
| 5 | I 've been in one of these . |
| 6 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 7 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 8 | I 've been in two er art |
| 9 | There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo . |
| 10 | How old would she have been in sixty one ? |
| 11 | I mean we 've been in three . |
| 12 | We were in precisely the same place that we had been in three dawns previously ! |
| 13 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 14 | Although there had been brief conflicts between England and France in the reigns of Edward I and Edward II , the reasons for war were now much more substantial than they had been in 1294 or 1324 , and the will to war on the part of the king , if not yet on the part of most of the nobility , was much more apparent . |
| 15 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 16 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 17 | The economics , ethics and effects of discounting were not the talking point they had been in 1991 . |
| 18 | No such state emerged , however , and 1945 found them no farther along the road than they had been in 1918 . |
| 19 | Chidzero admitted that Zimbabweans were financially worse off in 1989 than they had been in 1982 . |
| 20 | Customs duties rose under Mary and landed income fell in real terms : by 1603 the two were nearly level , as they had been in 1509 . |
| 21 | With almost as much of an increase in the volume of exports and an even greater one in that of re-exports , ports engaged in foreign trade were , as a group , handling four times as much cargo in 1800 as they had been in 1700 , and perhaps two and a half times as much as in 1750 . |
| 22 | The Fortresses and Liberators of the USAAF , escorted by long-range fighters , were penetrating the defences — which were now much more formidable than they had been in 1940/41 . |
| 23 | Trade unions were in fact in a much stronger position in 1933 than they had been in 1921 or 1922 . |
| 24 | Some new measures had , of course , been necessary , but on the whole changes brought about by the war were less incisive than they had been in 1914 . |
| 25 | In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War . |
| 26 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 27 | Is the Prime Minister aware that building employers say that conditions are worse than they have been in 40 years , that car sales are down 20 per cent . |
| 28 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 29 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 30 | By the time of Waterloo , for those few who could afford the coaches , passenger travel was perhaps four times as fast as it had been in 1750 between major centres and twice as fast elsewhere . |