Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] london " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 3 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 4 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 5 | ‘ Did Mrs Fairfax tell you I 've been to London ? ’ he asked . |
| 6 | Is it not supposed to be pussy cat , pussy cat where have you been , I 've been to London to see the queen ? |
| 7 | Pussy cat , pussy cat where have you been , I 've been to London to visit the king , pussy cat , pussy cat what were you there , I frightened a little mouse under the chair |
| 8 | I 've been to London . |
| 9 | I 've been in London now for two months . |
| 10 | I have been in London since February . ’ |
| 11 | When you 've been in London five minutes you never want to leave … |
| 12 | She had been to London once before only , and now she was going to Paris . |
| 13 | She felt that she had changed entirely since it was written , and chiefly during the three days since she had been in London . |
| 14 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 15 | Of course , we had been to London to visit Benjamin 's former betrothed , Johanna , a sweet girl whom he adored . |
| 16 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 17 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 18 | He was more casually dressed than he had been in London . |