Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 2 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 3 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 4 | Capt. Eliecer Gaitán , the security chief under Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega , was reported to have escaped on Sept. 16 from the apostolic nunciature in Panamá City , where he had been in refuge since Dec. 23 following the US invasion . |
| 5 | I was 19-years-old and , although I had been in action bombarding the Normandy coast and seen ships lost , the thought of this new venture alarmed me . |
| 6 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 7 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 8 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 9 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 10 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 11 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 12 | That you had been to bed with all those — ’ |
| 13 | I understand from Simon that you had been in touch regarding your proposal . |
| 14 | The subjects with influenza were 13% slower in performing the repeated numbers detection task than they had been on recruitment ( recruitment value 555 ( SD 79 ) ms , symptomatic value 627 ( SD 132 ) ms , asymptomatic value 550 ( SD 32 ) ms ) and were significantly slower than the healthy controls ( recruitment value 565 ( SD 60 ) ms , repeat value 544 ( SD 88 ) ms , second repeat value 549 ( SD 72 ) ms ) ( p<0.05 ) . |
| 15 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 16 | The partly suspended sentence of imprisonment had been omitted from the Bill which had passed through all its stages in the Lords , although it had been under consideration by the ACPS . |
| 17 | In his resignation speech , Gorbachev asserted that although he had been in favour of " the independence and self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of republics " , he had also believed in " preserving the union state and the country 's integrity " . |
| 18 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 19 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 20 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |
| 21 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 22 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 23 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 24 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 25 | It did not disturb him that he had been under observation ; he was not accustomed to deprecate what he was , or to undervalue it . |
| 26 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 27 | Mr Escobar confirmed reports that he had been in contact with the government for over 12 months prior to the crackdown , ordered after the drug-related slayings of a presidential candidate and two other top officials . |
| 28 | They had no reason to suppose that he had been in pursuit of them , the western ride led in the general direction of the outlaws ' Great Camp and they presumed that was where he was going . |
| 29 | Walt Disney also suggested that Shere Khan , the villain of the piece , was aristocratic and regal rather than the slavering , growling heavy that he had been in development . |
| 30 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |