Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ; |
| 2 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 3 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 4 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 5 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 6 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 7 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 8 | ‘ A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television , eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was — a 14-year-old boy full of life , energy and cheek . ’ |
| 9 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 10 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 11 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |