Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hercules has been there with the RAF and got on with the job . |
| 2 | DEC has been ahead of the field in cultivating computer-aided drug design and other molecular modelling companies , and its latest is Waltham , Massachusetts-based Molecular Simulations Inc . |
| 3 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 4 | If only Dana had been more like Myra . |
| 5 | Then he discovered Ash had been beforehand with him . |
| 6 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 7 | Earlier in the day , Jeffrey had been far from happy to learn that the Scotland seven to be chosen from a pool of ten — Hong Kong have increased from nine to remain consistent with the World Cup format — would have around five hours between their ties tomorrow . |
| 8 | She spoke as if Ruth had been away on holiday and must therefore have abounding strength and energy . |
| 9 | Kohl has been here before |
| 10 | Mandru had been away on business for much of the time since Lucien had arrived , so performances had been few . |
| 11 | No er I th I thought Mr had been here before now , but he 's a very busy man you know , he 'll be coming . |
| 12 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 13 | After the Portuguese mission left Abyssinia , Lebna Dengel found himself increasingly faced by the threat from the Muslim states of Ifat and of Adal , which included Harar , with which ever since the fourteenth century the Emperors of Abyssinia had been intermittently at war ; these states were forever encroaching on the eastern borders of the empire in a war of raid and counter-raid . |
| 14 | The 18 months that Del Amitri have been away from the spotlight have n't been wasted and they 've come up with some belting songs to prove it . |
| 15 | Unlike Roth , who 's been working , Tarantino has been everywhere with Reservoir Dogs . |
| 16 | Poor Sam had been backwards at coming forwards , she told herself . |
| 17 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 18 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 19 | ‘ And you 're fingering Billy to have been here on Sunday on some sort of animal liberation commando raid ? ’ |
| 20 | Yugoslavia had been effectively without a President or a commander of the armed forces ( a role held by the Collective Presidency ) for several days as the term of his predecessor , Borisav Jovic ( a Serb ) , had expired on May 15 . |
| 21 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 22 | Aerospatiale and Socata have been there since 1911 and will probably be there for the next 80 years , whether they buy Piper or not . |
| 23 | Mind you they have done a bit more to it since Wiggie 's been there in as much as she 's had a big curtain put across |
| 24 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 25 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 26 | Lionel had been much in evidence . |
| 27 | Peter had been outside in the wasteland . |
| 28 | Even if Cherith had been genuinely in love with me , how long do you thing we 'd have stayed together ? |
| 29 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 30 | In other fields — most notably those concerned with computers — both France and Britain have been far from successful . |