Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 2 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been through all that . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been through all this once , Cassie — with Bella . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been through all this with the police … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been through some interesting times of late , ’ Lucy told him , and smiled along with him when she saw that he understood the reference she was making . |
| 7 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 8 | I can remember I 've been on this Gipsy Working Party since you lost control of this Council for the last five years and you 've fought tooth and nail all the way down the line to resist every gipsy site that came in you 've used every manoeuvre that you could possibly do to resist it . |
| 9 | I 've been on this big rant lately of how transition is natural , continental drift , the seasons , the weather 's different every day , people grow older and change … |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been to that riding-stable — Angela 's sister Jennifer and I went hacking one day when I stayed the weekend there . |
| 11 | Well I , obviously want to try and attend meetings if and when possible , er I 've been to one last week , which basically was er because I do n't feel I 'm qualified to get up and David got up and spoke very well actually , he was always , at the police not neighbourhood watch , er to do with the cascade telephone system which we found out afterwards , after a three quarters hour debate a man came up to Dave afterwards and showed him a memo which said this cascade system has now ceased in November nineteen ninety-two and that was the the abuse on that particular meeting . |
| 12 | I 've been to most European countries , but Albania has always been a closed country . |
| 13 | I 've been like that all day . |
| 14 | I 've been like mad mad busy w one thing and another . |
| 15 | My mind 's a blank I 've been in that many different jobs now . |
| 16 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 17 | I have been to enough ecclesiastical congresses which have claimed that the voice of the Holy Spirit lay behind the votes of the big battalions to be sickened by it . |
| 18 | I have been through all these emotions myself . |
| 19 | There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo . |
| 20 | How old would she have been in sixty one ? |
| 21 | I suppose you 've been with that awful Mug-govertski ? ’ |
| 22 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 23 | She had been to Nice countless times . |
| 24 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 25 | Russia backed Austria , only to make plain in 1851 that she was no more willing to contemplate Viennese domination of German affairs than she had been to back Prussian . |
| 26 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 27 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 28 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 29 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 30 | ‘ You have been at some personal pains , ’ said the king in the same quiet voice , ‘ to bring us an eye-witness ’ account , and for that we thank you . |