Example sentences of "who have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 32 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 33 | He could n't confess it to Florrie ; he could never talk about it to anyone except Josh , who had been there with him — and he was not on very good terms with his brother , these days . |
| 34 | The shop was often at its busiest on a Saturday , when the farmers came in , or the men who had a half day themselves were marched in by wives to have themselves fitted out by Mr Hogan , or Mike the old assistant , the tailor who had been there since time immemorial . |
| 35 | Wallington flourished under a headmaster who had been there before the War , who grew roses under the class-room windows , and trees around the playing-field . |
| 36 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 37 | We had failed to locate a single prahu master , or " nakoda " , who had been anywhere near them , or had the slightest interest in doing so , and it was now so late in the west monsoon that there only remained another six weeks before we would no longer be able to depart without risking the winds dying and starting to reverse themselves before we had reached our destination . |
| 38 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 39 | She was a most responsible woman who had been abroad with her husband on service before the war . |
| 40 | The youngest of the trio — he was a-twenty-seven-year-old ex-seminarian who had been greatly under the influence of Molloy before going to Africa — began to sing , in a terrible , faltering voice , probably the most unmelodious I ever heard from a Danuese what sounded like the first lines of ‘ O , Mighty Mountain ! ’ |
| 41 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 42 | Women who have been away from work for some time and are seeking to re-start can take the first steps to a new career at a Women Returners Event to be held tomorrow in Middlesbrough town hall crypt . |
| 43 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 44 | Those of us who have been here since 1987 have a sense of fortune in being involved in the tremendous and dramatic changes in the world scene , which are reflected in the Gracious Speech . |
| 45 | ‘ I say to people to come and see Ireland for themselves because if they come they 'll never want to leave — like others who have been here from the North-East of England . |
| 46 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 47 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 48 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |