Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 4 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 9 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 10 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 11 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |
| 12 | Findings from the present study suggest that once people had become established in the homes their quality of life , in the opinion of their relatives , was similar to that of other people who died and had never been in such homes . |
| 13 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 14 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |