Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 2 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 3 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 4 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 5 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 6 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 7 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 8 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 9 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 10 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 11 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 12 | She 'd been to three lectures . |
| 13 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 14 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 15 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 16 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 17 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 19 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 20 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 21 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 22 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 23 | The pressures of wedded bliss excluded Sadie as effectively from the life of her former friend as if they had been on different continents . |
| 24 | They had been in dangerous situations before but none where the stakes were so high . |
| 25 | Working-class girls were probably less socially protected than they had been in pre-industrial communities , and a variety of influences could come into play , including the temptation of the streets . |
| 26 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 27 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 28 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 29 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 30 | He could hardly have been welcome , because when he had entered the senior police officer 's room it had been with two aides trying to keep him out by every manoeuvre other than manhandling him . |