Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 2 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 3 | " I 'd never been near the Chief Rabbit before . |
| 4 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 5 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It was a process of necessity , really but , since it was just me and a Portastudio , it was the first time I 'd ever been in the position of being able to write and record without any kind of pressure from anyone else . |
| 7 | I had already been to the dinner party . |
| 8 | ‘ I guess it was a big gamble to turn my back on Neighbours but I felt I had already been in the show too long , ’ says Kristian , who will still be seen in the soap in Britain for another 12 months . |
| 9 | I had never been to the Broads . |
| 10 | I had never been on the Upper West Side before , but it still reminded me of something . |
| 11 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 12 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
| 13 | I had always been under the impression that home breeding was unsuccessful , until I read an account of a breeding success by a Mr. Werner Nowak of Montreal . |
| 14 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 15 | I 've just been to the physio before I came here . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've just been into the village to post a letter . |
| 17 | I 've just been in the library , studying some of the books you recommended . |
| 18 | Well , I 've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad ! |
| 19 | I 've also been in the situation at Old Trafford where we took just two points out of last 12 and still only lost the title by four points . ’ |
| 20 | And the closest I 've ever been to the slopes is flying over Switzerland . |
| 21 | It 's unlikely that anybody does it too often , since trippers tend to make skiing an all-day outing , but I 've often been on the beach with people planning a ski trip next day . |
| 22 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 23 | I 've always been of the opinion that opposition are there to be hated and abused . |
| 24 | ‘ But I 've never been to the Lodge . |
| 25 | ' Well , none of it is true — I 've never been to the Royal College of Art — or any college of art for that matter . |
| 26 | I 've never been to the head , I 've never been to the governors . |
| 27 | I 've never been to the head , I 've never been to the governors . |
| 28 | The woman said , ‘ I 've never been to the North Pole , Mr MacKenzie , but I know it 's cold there . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I do n't go abroad on holiday — and I 've never been to the Caribbean , ’ she wailed helplessly as he added yet another gorgeous outfit to the huge pile he 'd already chosen . |
| 30 | I 've never been to the air field . |