Example sentences of "been in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 2 | Hello , yeah , Betty 's number , I 'm just having a recording done of me while I 've been in Harlow I 'm having it done now , yeah , er so I ca n't stop alright ? alright , bye , bye . |
| 3 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 4 | Er s so many have been in you know so many have been in Bread I do n't actually , I do n't |
| 5 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 6 | We have achieved this to such an extent that had the Community Charge still been in operation it would have been 40 less than last year 's figure . |
| 7 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 8 | I assure the hon. Gentleman that since we have been in office we have increased expenditure for the Cumbrian police authority by 80 per cent . |
| 9 | During the period in which the Conservatives have been in power it was said , first , that we needed only one terminal , Waterloo . |
| 10 | Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe . |
| 11 | How long they have been in partnership I can not be sure , but they show all the signs of a close musical understanding — temperament and technique in the service of the music , rather than vice versa , plus a healthy respect for the demands of textural clarity . |
| 12 | South Africa Spain , Australia and New Zealand have been in fashion I was told . |
| 13 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |
| 14 | which is quite rich coming from him , considering his son 's been in prison I do n't think |
| 15 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 16 | another thing Jonathan , Jackie 's er , lad , the one that 's gone onto Cornwall , he 's been in hospital he 's had another |