Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [noun prp] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I made her laugh and she reminded me of how Robin had been conceived . |
| 2 | She stood up and clambered clumsily over the fallen rocks towards where Klift had been standing . |
| 3 | Until now Gary had been an out-of-town designer , of course . |
| 4 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 5 | Until recently SRC had been owned and operated by Gerald Bull , a Canadian artillery expert who had close links with the Iraqi regime , being a friend of Brig. -Gen . |
| 6 | Terry 's move at least meant there was now more space and I moved across to where Terry had been . |
| 7 | If the policeman had stopped him getting close to where Harry had been shot to death then Erlich might just have punched him . |
| 8 | It was the sort of spot Martha would have wanted to be buried , because from her grave you could look out to sea towards the Gribbin , close to where Sam had been drowned . |
| 9 | They were talking , very movingly , about John Lennon 's death , and about how Ringo had been aware of John 's presence since . |
| 10 | Up till then Africa had been her life . |
| 11 | Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved . |
| 12 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |