Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 32 | I had been into Zambia , but not very often |
| 33 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 34 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 35 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 36 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 37 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 38 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 39 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 40 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 41 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 42 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 43 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 44 | I HAD been to Lourdes before . |
| 45 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 46 | I had been to church , but I did n't tell her . |
| 47 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 48 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 49 | I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up . |
| 50 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 51 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 52 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |
| 53 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 54 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 55 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 56 | Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night . |
| 57 | A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications . |
| 58 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |
| 59 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 60 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |