Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is for Ear'ole , who has been as enthusiastic about my shop as she has been about all the other things that I have tackled , and then begged her to help with . |
| 2 | I see Chummy has been round all the desks . ’ |
| 3 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 4 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 5 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 6 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
| 7 | Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob . |
| 8 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 9 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 10 | It had been in all the national papers , but news is quickly forgotten , and at that time Willi must have been mourning his wife , trying to cope with loneliness and a small son , submerged in his own misery . |
| 11 | Equally , everybody knows why everybody stays , they 've been through all the arguments a hundred times before and now they do n't need to any more , now they know they 're not to blame and their husbands are n't the homicidal maniacs some theorists would have them be . |
| 12 | " But it 's been worth all the pain and trouble . " |
| 13 | Yes , it 's been to all the committees now , bar the Public Affairs Committee . |
| 14 | Yeah , it 's been on all the time is n't it ? |