Example sentences of "we [vb past] been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 2 | When Aziru sent his Khabiris against us , finally , we had been under siege for three years . |
| 3 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 4 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 5 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 6 | We had been on holiday in Scotland and I was doing the washing on the Monday when suddenly a huge black cloud seemed to descend — a mass of fear , anxiety and utter depression . ’ |
| 7 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 8 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 9 | Simultaneously we had been in touch with Sir Hubert and had discovered that he did indeed give an interview to the representative in London and had spoken ‘ off the cuff ’ to quite an extent but not justifying the outright statement attributed to him . |