Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 2 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 5 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 6 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 9 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 11 | really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought |
| 12 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 13 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 14 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 15 | I 've been in traditional sales . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ I was here in good shape , but I 've been in good shape at other championships and failed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’ |
| 20 | Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player . |
| 21 | I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’ |
| 22 | We apply such a combination here to an issue which has been of central interest to urban sociology : the state , its concentration of power , and its relation to people 's daily lives . |
| 23 | Inevitably , priorities also shifted as a result of civil strife , which has been of fundamental importance to at least twelve of sub-Saharan Africa 's forty-one countries . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 26 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 27 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 28 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 29 | In a general election held on Sept. 3 , 1988 [ see pp. 36352-53 ] , the People 's Action Party ( PAP — which had been in continuous majority since 1959 ) won all but one of the 81 elective seat . |
| 30 | In 1978 I attended the Welsh ploughing championships , held on rich alluvial land in the Wye Valley which had been in continuous cereal production for several years . |