Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea . |
| 2 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 3 | I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh … |
| 4 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 5 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 6 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 7 | She had never been in such a place before , and she saw at once that most of the men had girls with them who were certainly not their wives , or the kind of girl one took home to mother . |
| 8 | I say that I thought we had already been through all this . |
| 9 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 10 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 11 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 12 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 13 | It had always been like that . |
| 14 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 15 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 16 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 17 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 18 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 19 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 20 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |