Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Whinnett said : ‘ I am not a psychiatrist , but if someone has been through a traumatic experience I have to consider that it could happen .
2 I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is .
3 I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime .
4 This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day .
5 I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours .
6 I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring
7 Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left .
8 When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down .
9 Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the .
10 I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby .
11 I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road .
12 I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you .
13 I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema .
14 I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality .
15 And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you !
16 ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’
17 Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before .
18 I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it .
19 ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on .
20 I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt .
21 I 'd been after a pair for ages .
22 I 'd been in a light sleep .
23 It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women .
24 I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback …
25 I 'd been in a couple of dreadful films by then — I think I 'd swooned , screamed , kissed the hero …
26 Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists .
27 I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It .
28 Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie .
29 Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it
30 " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted .
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