Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 32 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 33 | Well I 'd never been on stage in my life before and there I was , suddenly going to be in front of King George and Queen Mary . |
| 34 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 36 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 37 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 38 | I do n't know if she 's gone alone or with some , or with a friend , but er she said she wanted to , she 'd never been to California and she wanted to go before she was too old and crotchety to get there because David 's he 's in no fit state to go anywhere any more . |
| 39 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 40 | Still , it sounded like a fascinating challenge , and she 'd never been to Sheffield before , so it would give her an opportunity to see another little bit of the world . |
| 41 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 42 | I 'd never been in love in my life till you came along . ’ |
| 43 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 44 | The last time we worked together was in Prague , late Spring of ‘ 68 … just before the Czechoslovakian balloon went up . |
| 45 | While reading Sir Nicholas 's biography , not one new word I looked up was in Chambers . |
| 46 | The picture he took out was of Adam Nicholson . |
| 47 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 48 | The outline presented below is in note form with issues which could be used in training . |
| 49 | The one I liked best was against Mike Weaver . |
| 50 | ’ And Lorna Bottomley : ‘ I liked simply being in Oxford , the long peaceful days , the endless talk about life , the gentle witty courtesy of my tutor Miss Farnell , the few unobtrusive but sufficient rules about hours and gowns and guests … ’ |
| 51 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 52 | She certainly had not been able to learn to swim when the other children did ; in fact she had constantly been in trouble at school because she would invent any excuse to avoid even going near the swimming pool . |
| 53 | The remaining five had all been on suspension for about 12 months following an incident which resulted in police and internal disciplinary inquiries . |
| 54 | My mother and Marie Claire and Lili had all been at school together in Egypt . |
| 55 | His dreams had all been about home . |
| 56 | The remainder had all been in favour of killing her . |
| 57 | We had all been in Hawaii with Youth With A Mission ( YWAM ) taking part in the Crossroads Discipleship Training School , YWAM 's basic entry course for full time workers . |
| 58 | It was spotted by William Robertson , then aged 20 , a deaf man who had been educated at the Aberdeen School for the Deaf , and who had only been at sea for one year . |
| 59 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 60 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |