Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 2 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 3 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 4 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 5 | And I 'd no been to bloody . |
| 6 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 7 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 8 | I 'd never been to New Earth before . |
| 9 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 11 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
| 12 | The implication was that the slaughter had all been in vain . |
| 13 | And she had n't got whatever it was he wanted , so it had all been in vain . |
| 14 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 15 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 16 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 17 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
| 18 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
| 19 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 20 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 21 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 22 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 23 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 24 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 25 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 26 | Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt . |
| 27 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 28 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 29 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 30 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |