Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 2 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 3 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 4 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 5 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 6 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 7 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 8 | MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies . |
| 9 | Yeah , she 'd been to college but she could n't get her car started , she had to get her dad to drive her in and pick her up . |
| 10 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 11 | We 'd been in make-up and when we were n't called he said , ‘ Right , Dennis , open the bar . ’ |
| 12 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 13 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 14 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 15 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 16 | There were sometimes they , they came , if they 'd been in action and er , the people had actually found blood and parts of the uniforms in the air gunner 's compartment at the back , and the , the fella , the navigator u and bomb aimer used to be in the nose , they had n't got much of a chance if they came down in there because they were right cut off from the rest of the aircraft so , but it was virtually a suicide position in the nose of the Bostons . |
| 17 | He 'd been in custody since early February accused of attempted robbery . |
| 18 | A similar balance was identified in Meijer BV where 90% of all telexes received were in English and only 10% in German . |
| 19 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 20 | Judge Peter Greenwood said : ‘ The cruelty you showed was without mercy and you can expect little from me . ’ |
| 21 | I have looked up my own record over the past six months , and I find that the only courthouse whose closure I approved was in Leicestershire and was precisely 500 yd from a new courthouse costing £8 million which we had erected to take its place . |
| 22 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 23 | The particular issues raised were of over-assessment and of a fragmented approach to assessment . |
| 24 | Before , I loved being at home but I loved being in work too and I do miss it , the girls and all . |
| 25 | The films Gloria liked were about love and people singing to each other . |
| 26 | He liked being with Steve and Paul because they were like his bit of rough . |
| 27 | The estimate had been between £40,000 and £60,000 , but competition between the Khalili Galleries of London and an unnamed museum drove the price through the roof . |
| 28 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 29 | Julia found herself wanting to get to know her better , quite certain by then that whatever there had been between Suvarov and Felicity while his first wife was alive it had not been the kind of affair David had assumed . |
| 30 | The reports differed , however , as to whether the clashes had been between Uzbeks and Armenians , Tadjiks and Armenians , or Uzbeks and Tadjiks . |