Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 2 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 3 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 7 | They had been on Christian name terms for some time now . |
| 8 | Many of the girls wanted to ask about domestic details such as rationing , clothes and saying goodbye to boyfriends while the boys frequently said they wanted to interview the men to find out if they had been on active service or if they had killed anyone . |
| 9 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 10 | Since entering the wood they had been in severe anxiety . |
| 11 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 12 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 13 | It had been of considerable importance to the development of the District 's confidence and reputation in East Anglia in the early twenties . |
| 14 | It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper . |
| 15 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 16 | But the final sale price was still pounds more than it had been in normal trading the month before . |
| 17 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 18 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 19 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
| 20 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |
| 21 | Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son . |
| 22 | Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger . |
| 23 | Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford . |