Example sentences of "[vb past] also [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herluin might hold it against the boy that he had disgraced Ramsey not so much by attempting theft , but by making a botch of it , but Herluin had also been of the abbot 's party . |
| 2 | Later I realised he had also been in the other two . |
| 3 | In fact , they had already become good friends when she had played Mrs Murray in Eh ? with him at Circle-In-The-Square , and she had also been in The Tiger Makes Out . |
| 4 | My grandfather had also been in the Army , firstly in the Leicestershire Regiment during the Great War , and then the Education Corps after the armistice . |
| 5 | For Geoffrey , although he seems to have taken no part in suppressing the revolt , had also been in the Limousin during that summer . |
| 6 | He stressed that Columbus had brought the " precious seed of faith " to the Americas , which he characterized as one of " the greatest events in history " , and that the Church had also been in the forefront of efforts to curb the abuses of the colonists . |
| 7 | There was in the polytechnics and colleges , as there had also been in the colleges of advanced technology , some general discussion about the validity of sandwich courses as such , given the possibility that they might be a means of perpetuating outdated practices . |
| 8 | His cousin , Francis Drake , who had also been among the survivors of San Juan de Ulloa , took a more aggressive attitude to the Spanish empire ; as an uncompromising Protestant he felt that his country ought to be at war with Spain and , if it would not do this , he would fight on his own account , looking round for people prepared to invest in a private attack on the wealth of Spain . |