Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | We enclose a copy of this and we hope that you will find time to read it and see what CPRW has been up to during the past year . |
2 | Neil MacDonald has been out in Chile meeting the leaders of the fishing community … |
3 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
4 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
5 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
6 | You know young Neil Lewis coming in for a game like this is tremendous performance and Michael Whitlow and Colin Hill have been up against it but they 've worked hard and I think it 's been a great game and er one nil probably does n't er justify both sides . |
7 | Munro has been out of rugby since his complex leg break in April , 1990 , an injury that forced him to drop out of Scotland 's tour to New Zealand that summer . |
8 | Forty-five years later Erika Barnes has been back to the village , now a thriving community . |
9 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |
10 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
11 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
12 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
13 | I went to Scotland Yard this morning and saw an Inspector and told him all about our suspicions , and about how we knew Nigel had been down at Streatley that Saturday — ’ |
14 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
15 | MORE than one in five of the 2,329 young people seeking jobs and training in Hampshire have been out of work for more than six months . |
16 | Bernie 's been out at ten o'clock at night before with him . |
17 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |
18 | ‘ Lady Nugent-Scott has been up to her tricks again . |
19 | Deng Xiaoping had been out of circulation since being accused of provoking the Tiananmen Incident . |
20 | Pam had been out at a friend 's all evening . |
21 | Robert had been back to the gallery , to the annoyance , I felt sure , of the owner . |
22 | Vaguely she wondered if Kate and Stephen had been up to mischief . |
23 | WHILE our attention has been on the General Election and its aftermath , the Serbs have been up to their old tricks . |
24 | Young Martin 's been out of work for a year now , ever since he left school . |
25 | ‘ He was wanting to know if Philip had been up in Mr Hyde 's woods . ’ |
26 | There were interruptions : Oliver coming to ask what Ruby Dobby had been up to , and Shildon asking Rain for the latest news about the murder . |
27 | Chairman John McBaine , passing sentence , labelled it a ‘ tragic case ’ , adding it was difficult to realise what suffering Lee had been through in the last few months . |
28 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
29 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
30 | Already teams from GCHQ have been out to America to be trained in the use of the new equipment . |