Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 2 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 3 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 4 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 5 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 6 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 7 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 8 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 9 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 10 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 12 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 14 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 15 | I 've been to eight countries in the last two weeks . |
| 16 | I bet I 've been to more schools than Australia , I 've been to four schools in Australia |
| 17 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 18 | I 've been in two minds about whether to bother with the ABA this year , but the news that Baroness Thatcher and Margaret Atwood are to share a platform at a Book and Author Breakfast has made my mind up for me . |
| 19 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 20 | I 've been in worse scrapes than this . |
| 21 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 22 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 23 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 24 | I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference . |
| 25 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 26 | Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player . |
| 27 | The trauma underlying religion , which has been for long periods of time forgotten , remaining latent in the unconscious , was also a mixture of sexuality and aggression . |
| 28 | ‘ But when you look at the legislation , which has been in many ways draconian for the situation which exists today , you have great difficulty in saying who is and who is not under the age of 16 . |
| 29 | No. 9 has been on the parent line at Brecon operating Santa Specials , but all that has been seen out in Aberystwyth has been the diesel which has been out most weekdays on engineers ' trains . |
| 30 | The item below that is the shortfall in planning application fees , this is application fees for er mineral extraction applications which are , these are set as a statutory charge erm we 've picked up in the budget monitoring reports which have been to previous committees that the from this source has been falling off , as a few words explain that in this paragraph . |