Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed . |
| 2 | It had not been at all like that . |
| 3 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 4 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 5 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |