Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 2 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 3 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 4 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 5 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |