Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 2 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 3 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 4 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 5 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 6 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 7 | This school looked so much bigger than the other two primary schools that I had been to . |
| 8 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 9 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 10 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 11 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 12 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 13 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 14 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |
| 15 | She told magistrates that she had been into town and was late getting the car back home to her parents who needed it for an important appointment . |
| 16 | If her brothers even suspected that she had been with a boy , all hell would break loose . |
| 17 | None of them knew that she had been with the FBI for two years , where she had specialized in the use of firearms , before joining UNACO three years ago . |
| 18 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 19 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 20 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 21 | Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning . |
| 22 | For a moment Frau Nordern was tempted to lie , to say that she had been to a meeting , or a mother . |
| 23 | It was , she said , adding that she had been to over fifty funerals in the UK alone , the funeral of a lifetime . |
| 24 | Sue just happened to mention that she had been to an orphanage in Brasov and Christine realised it was the same one that Christine Morey had written about . |
| 25 | Anna did not say that she was not a virgin , that she had been to bed with two of the men in West Kensington and had been , at seventeen , much inclined to suppose herself in love with one of them . |
| 26 | I was almost certain that she had been to the British Museum no more recently than I had myself . |
| 27 | Since Georgina denied that she had been to Miller 's End since Christmas , and to the woods behind the cottage since the previous autumn , the forensic evidence clinched the case against her . |
| 28 | ‘ Who are you trying to kid ? ’ he taunted , and somehow he seemed to know , though how she did n't know , that she had been within an ace of responding to him . |
| 29 | After some spirited discussion Margaret agreed with the policy but pointed out with some feeling that she had been in the chair of every meeting of the Economic Committee throughout the Falklands crisis . |
| 30 | In the two years or more that she had been in Nordale she had almost come to think of it as home . |