Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 6 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 7 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 10 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 16 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 25 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 26 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 27 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 28 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 29 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 30 | She 'd been to three lectures . |