Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is four years since my last midfield appearance because Colin Harvey moved be back to right back and then the injuries began . |
| 2 | This involved being around , or hanging around , just watching , recording , holding conversations . |
| 3 | What a marvellous constitution she must have to remember that after all she 'd been through ! |
| 4 | And after all she 'd been through . |
| 5 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 6 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 7 | It was mean , especially after all she 'd been through . |
| 8 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 9 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 10 | A result of all the strain she 'd been through , she thought distractedly , groping for her handkerchief . |
| 11 | He 'd been round there early this morning to get some papers for the solicitor or summat . |
| 12 | he 'd been round last Friday , on Thursday she rang |
| 13 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 14 | Anyway , er they we , they moved out last Friday so this week when he rang me , they 'd been round past the hotel and er there 's walls being knocked down ! |
| 15 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 16 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 17 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 18 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |
| 19 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 20 | They were called Jem and Eric ; he recognized them ; they 'd been around since the filming started . |
| 21 | ‘ If you 'd been around where you should have been , then possibly Ace would n't have had to take such instant action to avoid Dara ! ’ |
| 22 | If you 'd been around , I 'm sure I would have been able to say no . ’ |
| 23 | I was only 23 and to hear players like Willie John , Gareth Edwards and Mervyn Davies saying that it was the best tour they 'd been on , then you knew it really was something special . |
| 24 | ‘ If they 'd been on , it would have spoiled the mystery , ’ Sarah explained . |
| 25 | I always remember I had Tommy Ken Russell and he 'd been on . |
| 26 | Would of won it if I 'd been on |
| 27 | He knew the place , you see — he 'd been over quite recently to do a valuation for insurance . |
| 28 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 29 | He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there . |
| 30 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |