Example sentences of "day [pers pn] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 2 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 3 | ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane . |
| 4 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 5 | It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know . |
| 6 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 7 | So every day I have been with my little man to see the Mass in the Royal Chapel , to hear the choir in the motet , which is always performed there . |
| 8 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 9 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 10 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 11 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |