Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] paris " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 2 | Madeleine had been in Paris for over a month , and was still ignorant of the fate of Jeanne . |
| 3 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 4 | Comfort had been in Paris for a fortnight , officially to sort out details of an exhibition of her paintings , and she had taken the opportunity to replenish her depleted wardrobe and see as many of her old friends as she could find . |
| 5 | Of the five painters who had signed the manifesto only Severini , who had been in Paris since 1905 , had any claim to be considered avant-garde , whereas the others were mostly working in a debased divisionist technique and relied for novelty on the rather obvious imagery of their subject-matter . |
| 6 | Bush denied that he had been in Paris and called for an end to the " rumour-mongering " concerning the affair . |
| 7 | He had been in Paris at the time of the murder . |