Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 2 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been through all that . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been through all this once , Cassie — with Bella . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been through all this with the police … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been through some interesting times of late , ’ Lucy told him , and smiled along with him when she saw that he understood the reference she was making . |
| 7 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 8 | I 've been on this big rant lately of how transition is natural , continental drift , the seasons , the weather 's different every day , people grow older and change … |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 10 | I 've been to most European countries , but Albania has always been a closed country . |
| 11 | I 've been like that all day . |
| 12 | My mind 's a blank I 've been in that many different jobs now . |
| 13 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 14 | I have been to enough ecclesiastical congresses which have claimed that the voice of the Holy Spirit lay behind the votes of the big battalions to be sickened by it . |
| 15 | I have been through all these emotions myself . |
| 16 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 17 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 18 | I suppose you 've been with that awful Mug-govertski ? ’ |
| 19 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 20 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 21 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 22 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 23 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 24 | The general rule here is that dukes are a better topic than baronets , especially dukes who have been through several expensive duchesses ( you can never have enough ex- duchesses ) . |
| 25 | ‘ You have been at some personal pains , ’ said the king in the same quiet voice , ‘ to bring us an eye-witness ’ account , and for that we thank you . |
| 26 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's been like that most of the afternoon , ’ Sister Duggan , who was standing by at the foot of the bed , told him . |
| 28 | GUIL : I thought we 'd been into all that . |
| 29 | ‘ Fuck off , we 've been through all that . |
| 30 | We 've been through all that . ’ |