Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 2 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 3 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 4 | Perhaps she had already been to one . |
| 5 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
| 6 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 7 | ‘ I know he has had his moments in the past , but perhaps he has never been at a club big enough to cope with his particular character . |
| 8 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 9 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 10 | Sam Fawcett used to keep a stuffed one in a glass case , which is the nearest I have ever been to one . |
| 11 | Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night |
| 12 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
| 13 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 14 | Now I 've never been on a camel before and these guys , I mean , they do n't wash ; just roll around in the sand . |
| 15 | Well I 'd never been on stage in my life before and there I was , suddenly going to be in front of King George and Queen Mary . |
| 16 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 17 | Well I 've only been from |
| 18 | Well she 's just been in er Longeaton Operatic Society playing the dog in Annie for a week . |
| 19 | Well we 've never been along that , actually . |
| 20 | Well we 've only been to the dentist here . |
| 21 | Well they 'd already been to the pantomime at your school so you 'll have to wait till next year now . |
| 22 | Well he 's also been on hundreds of committees because they were sort of one of the early ones to be done |
| 23 | Fortunately I had already been in touch with the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , whose representative I met by chance on their stand in an exhibition marquee during Environment Week . |
| 24 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 25 | And the closest I 've ever been to the slopes is flying over Switzerland . |
| 26 | Then railways appeared and canal owners realised too late they had really been in the business of transportation . |
| 27 | That 's how it 's always been with Oliver and me . |
| 28 | Maybe it 's always been like this |
| 29 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 30 | But then he has always been on top of the situation . |