Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 2 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 3 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 5 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 6 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 7 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 8 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 9 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 10 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 11 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 12 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 13 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 16 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 17 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 18 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 19 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 20 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 21 | If you are sailing in this curved air flow you can not sail as close to the wind as you could if you had been in clear wind . |
| 22 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 23 | It had been a hectic period during which we had been under some pressure . |
| 24 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 25 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 26 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 27 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 28 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 29 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |