Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 5 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 7 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 8 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 11 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 16 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 17 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 20 | And I think er Well Pat and I have discussed that a little bit as well , cos I 've been under some pressure in this direction with Alice . |
| 21 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 22 | I mean , you could learn , but I 've been down that road and I do n't want you to follow . |
| 23 | Yeah , well I 've b t to tell you honest truth , I 've been on th I 've been down that road . |
| 24 | I 've been over this part twice , and look at the water . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 28 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 29 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 30 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |