Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 2 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |
| 3 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 4 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 5 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 6 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |