Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [pers pn] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 2 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 3 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 4 | Oh I 'm sure it would mean an awful lot to them and the fact that you 're so successful coming out of Ireland would mean a lot to them as well you know and er er it 's nice to be able to er you know to do that for them if they 've been over here living for you know some of them have never been back maybe and some of them have never seen Ireland because maybe their their parents or their grandparents came from there . |
| 5 | I said and so would you if you had been through what I have . |
| 6 | because you cos it 's been by your face like , the back 's still wet . |
| 7 | And you get a letter two days later : ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't take you because you 've been to prison . ’ |
| 8 | as I told you before I 'd been like it before and it |
| 9 | But the exiled soldier wanted more than a place to stay : he wanted , to a Peter Pan-ish degree , everything as it had been in his childhood home . |
| 10 | Ken was n't as happy with this one as he had been with its predecessor . |
| 11 | ‘ Unemployment is something that personally concerns me because I have been at the edge of unemployment all my life , ’ added the 42-year-old who speaks highly of the quality of the environment on Teesside , a much richer and more vibrant and pleasant place in which to live than he had imagined . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Where 's your manners just lately , you 've lost them since you 've been to school ! |
| 14 | He was obviously even more angry with her than he had been during the contretemps with Terry . |
| 15 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 16 | He too wanted to talk to her about the attack , but found her far less ready to talk to him than she had been to the woman from the gipsy encampment . |
| 17 | have been him if it had been in the south , with me . |
| 18 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 19 | I FEEL sorry for him because he 's been through so much — hammered in every way . |
| 20 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |
| 21 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 22 | A picture of her as she had been in life came up on the screen . |
| 23 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 24 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 25 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 26 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |
| 27 | An individual who is domiciled outside the United Kingdom shall not be chargeable to tax in respect of the sum which is deemed to be his under s739 if he would not have been chargeable to tax in respect of it if it had been in fact his income . |
| 28 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 29 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 30 | He was taken over by it as he had been by the piety which had moved him so completely in St Kentigern 's . |