Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] had [adv] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |
| 2 | Soon he was exploring parts he felt no-one had ever been in before . |
| 3 | ‘ I guess it was a big gamble to turn my back on Neighbours but I felt I had already been in the show too long , ’ says Kristian , who will still be seen in the soap in Britain for another 12 months . |
| 4 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 5 | I knew she had n't been in the garden , I would have been able to smell her . |
| 6 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 7 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 8 | Later I realised he had also been in the other two . |
| 9 | I only wish the man who did it had still been with her . ’ |
| 10 | You said you had n't been to a gym in ages . |
| 11 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 12 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 13 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 14 | He said he had n't been in trouble before . |
| 15 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |
| 16 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 17 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |