Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 With whom only months ago I had been like every other new recruit ;
2 Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton .
3 I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring
4 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 .
5 ‘ 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 . ’
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