Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] [verb] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That first contract had been for America , and then came Russia , France , Italy , Germany , South America , the list is endless . |
| 2 | His first action had been in Greece in late 1940 : ‘ We soon went to the border , and the Germans invaded from Bulgaria and Yugoslavia which they had romped through . |
| 3 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 4 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |
| 5 | His last call had been to Frick , the man he knew that he must convince . |