Example sentences of "been [prep] a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 2 | JOHN Curant 's visits to the racecourse lately have been as a ladies clothing salesman operating from a mobile stand . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 4 | The employee was married and had been with a savings bank in a small town for more than 26 years . |
| 5 | Hey , I 've been in a Streaks and Tips recovery programme for many years . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 7 | Since then the pickup has been in a police pound near Cheltenham . |
| 8 | Needless to say , she had never been in a sports car before , and to be speeding and curving through the streets with the top open and the balmy August breeze combing silkily through her fine hair was sheer heaven . |
| 9 | He had been in a children 's home |
| 10 | She had never been in a cuttings library before . |
| 11 | I mean when I got , when I got here okay er when I was in the lower sixth and I like sort of got in and then like it was so weird being , I mean I 'd never been to a blokes ' school before I came here |
| 12 | Been to a cattle market . |
| 13 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 14 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 15 | Asprey , 5p higher at 290p , is flush with cash and has been on an acquisitions spree in the last 15 months . |
| 16 | She had been at a Women 's Aid conference in London all weekend , and she was tired and depressed . |
| 17 | Mr Murphy was released yesterday after statements were produced in court from witnesses who said he had been at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Uxbridge , west London , at the time of the bombing . |