Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite aware of my childish misdemeanours , but I had n't been to confession since I returned from Egypt , and I thought he would be profoundly shocked by what I should have to tell him . |
| 2 | I arrived from nowhere , I had n't been to drama school . |
| 3 | ‘ I wish I had n't been to Zaire . |
| 4 | They could see by my record that I had n't been to prison before , did n't know the procedure . |
| 5 | It 's been hell shut up in that cottage with two women who would both have braved the weather to come up here to see how you were if I had n't been on hand to stop them . ’ |
| 6 | I had n't been in bed all that long . |
| 7 | I heard him leaving because I had n't been in bed very long , and I heard him coming back because I had a bit of indigestion and I could n't sleep . ’ |
| 8 | No , I had n't been in prison . |
| 9 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 10 | Fortunately I had already been in touch with the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , whose representative I met by chance on their stand in an exhibition marquee during Environment Week . |
| 11 | I had not been to London for over twenty years , and my daughters had never been there . |
| 12 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 13 | After all I had never been to London and it is one 's capital city ! |
| 14 | I had never been to Rome or indeed to Italy before . |
| 15 | I had never been to Asia before and really did n't know what to expect . |
| 16 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 17 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 18 | I had only been at home for about ten days when a friend of mine asked me to join him on a journey to the East Indies . |
| 19 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 20 | I had only been in prison eight days . |
| 21 | The library , which had not been in use since Sir John Merchiston 's death some seven years earlier , was a very pleasant room , positioned opposite the ballroom , between Araminta 's parlour and the big saloon , with panelled walls , quantities of shelving , an ivory inlay desk , leather chairs before the fireplace , and a good deal of light , even on this overcast day , coming in from a glazed door leading out into a pretty walled garden . |
| 22 | Work started on rebuilding utilities and refineries , and the government began administering the operation of the country 's ports , which had previously been under militia control . |
| 23 | At the age of fourteen he obtained a scholarship to Stowe School which had only been in existence six years . |
| 24 | Her taste , which had never been for understatement , influenced his , which had always been a little austere . |
| 25 | He himself had never been to Holborn , Dinah reflected ; and knew why . |
| 26 | She had n't been to confession since the vision . |
| 27 | She had n't been to Scotland for years . |
| 28 | She experienced changeable moods and panic attacks — she had n't been on holiday for 20 years and could n't even go out to dinner for fear of not being able to get away . |
| 29 | She had n't been in love with Hugh . |
| 30 | Millions and millions of bits of information were still in her head , correctly labelled and neatly stored , but she could not work out the geography of this house , she was seeing green tigers and she was afraid in a way she had not been since childhood . |