Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] be [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth was n't even sure how long she had been back in Palma . |
| 2 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 3 | Perhaps it had been all in her imagination , fuelled by her own desires . |
| 4 | She said she sometimes longed to go out , to a disco or an amusement arcade and be with other girls , but her uncle was strict and did n't like her going to those places , and although she was sometimes lonely she could n't stand the thought of going back to that school , especially now she had been away from it for so long because anyway her friends would n't be there any more and she would be treated like a little girl and the things they had to do would seem more stupid than ever because in her uncle s house she was treated like a grown-up , which she was anyway , and she ran the house . |
| 5 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 6 | While originally he had been fully in support of the Arusha Declaration and allied policies , later he began to attack the Government from London . |
| 7 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 8 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 9 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 10 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |