Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 2 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 5 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 6 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 9 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’ |
| 11 | really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought |
| 12 | Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er |
| 13 | I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such . |
| 14 | I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there . |
| 15 | I 've been in traditional sales . |
| 16 | I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire . |
| 17 | ‘ I was here in good shape , but I 've been in good shape at other championships and failed . |
| 18 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 19 | But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’ |
| 20 | Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player . |
| 21 | I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’ |
| 22 | She has been in private use in Scandinavia only , and is very well equipped . |
| 23 | Though the 27-year-old Scot has yet to win the championship she was third last year , on her comeback following pregnancy she has been in unbeatable form since her 10,000 metres World Championship triumph in Tokyo , winning the New York Marathon , setting a world indoor 5,000 metres record and lapping all of her 3,000 metres rivals in the Great Britain v USA indoor international last weekend . |
| 24 | she has been in numerous exhibitions since graduating from Goldsmiths ' College and the Salde School of Art . |
| 25 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 26 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 27 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 28 | Remember we keep talking about tourism as being fashionable , it 's fashionable to say you 've been to certain destinations . |
| 29 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 30 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |