Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [prep] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 4 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 10 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 11 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 12 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 13 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 14 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 15 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 16 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 17 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 18 | The dressing room was charged with venom , jealousy , spite , and also total and undisciplined panic , which stemmed mainly from Stefan , who had been through most things with Gesner in the course of the various Seasons , but never anything like this ; never before an open confrontation between Gesner and the Direktor in the middle of a performance . |
| 19 | Harrowby was an eminent politician , who had been for many years MP for Liverpool ; his scientific interests were in geography and statistics . |
| 20 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |
| 21 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 22 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 23 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 24 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 25 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 26 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 27 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 28 | There had been for many years various organizations to co-ordinate Nonconformist work in both political and religious fields and the oldest bodies dated back to the previous century . |
| 29 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |