Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been through a marriage , a divorce , and a serious love affair ; learnt Russian , written regularly for a local paper and taught a young child disabled by a stroke to read again . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman there said last night : ‘ She has been through a terrible ordeal . |
| 3 | ‘ She has been through an awful lot , ’ says Ann . |
| 4 | The lady is looking for a husband and she has been about the world sufficiently to know that I am not one of those . |
| 5 | She tells me she has been to every temple on the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini . |
| 6 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 7 | ‘ She has been with the Yorks for four years and has become very attached to the children . |
| 8 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 9 | Apart from a year at Westfield College she has been on the staff of the Department of French at Reading University since 1962 , progressing from Tutorial Assistant to a personal chair as Professor of French . |
| 10 | Mrs Grant has decided to stand down from HIE , where she has been on the board since its inception two years ago , because of increasing work commitments . |
| 11 | She has been in the hat business since 1982 but a devotee for far longer . |
| 12 | She has been in the £500-a-night Sierra Tucson Clinic in Arizona , where patients carry sackfuls of rocks to symbolise their burdens . |
| 13 | Bill Service , Personnel Manager states ‘ In all the time she has been in the Mill , she was never late of absent until February 1987 when she unfortunately slipped while coming to work and sustained a dislocated elbow . ’ |
| 14 | She has been in the business for about a year yeah . |
| 15 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 16 | ‘ Tagan is our best tracker , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ and he has been to the Greshorns . ’ |
| 17 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 18 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 19 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 20 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 21 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 22 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 23 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
| 24 | He has been with the T.A . |
| 25 | He has been with the company for 17 years and like Robin started his career with the company in Scotland before moving South in 1989 . |
| 26 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 27 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
| 28 | He has been at the head of many investigations , one major case being the doping of Bravefoot and Norwich , which disfigured the 1990 St Leger meeting at Doncaster . |
| 29 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
| 30 | He has been at the centre of California politics too long to escape responsibility for the state 's deeper sicknesses . |