Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 32 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 33 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 34 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 35 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 36 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 37 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 38 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 39 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 40 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 41 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 42 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 43 | I 've never been into that scene . ’ |
| 44 | Bryan agrees : ‘ I 've never been into that sort of high speed guitar playing , and if I was it would have to be something very melodic . |
| 45 | In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ? |
| 46 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |
| 47 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 48 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 49 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 50 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 51 | Some people have already been down that road ! |
| 52 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 53 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 54 | But let's propose a statement , which through the county treasurer 's report in any detail today , it 's already been to all service committees and I 'm sure you 're very familiar with it 's contents . |
| 55 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 56 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ It 's the only place he 's ever been outside this country . |
| 58 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 59 | I 'm afraid I have n't been of much help to you , Mr Millet . ’ |
| 60 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |