Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 3 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 4 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 5 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 6 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 7 | Faith had been of certain mind but easier to please . |
| 8 | About half the planting under the scheme had been of broadleaved trees or native pinewoods . |
| 9 | The areas in which slavery or serfdom had been of marginal importance or genuinely ‘ uneconomic ’ — e.g. northern and southern Russia or the border states and the south-west in the United States — adjusted readily to its liquidation . |
| 10 | His own pleasure had been of shorter duration for he was very well aware that he ought somehow to have protected this trusting girl from himself . |
| 11 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 12 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 13 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 14 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 15 | We had been to Euro Disney and had a toy gun for Matthew . |
| 16 | Of the Bank 's new lending in fiscal 1991 , $5,200 million had been to Latin America and the Caribbean , $3,400 million to Africa , $7,500 million to Asian countries , and $6,600 million to Europe , the Middle East and North Africa . |
| 17 | The difficulty of interpreting such information is highlighted though by the fact that this educated elite , two-thirds of whom had been to public schools and universities , chose as their leader a man who had been to neither . |
| 18 | Of the temporary jobs concerned , nearly three quarters ( 70 per cent ) had been for six months or less ( Stern , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | And one of the most experienced U-boat commanders , Adalbert Schnee , who had been on sixteen patrols and later became a member of Dönitz 's staff , gave evidence that it was contrary to orders to kill survivors and that there could be no excuse for what Eck had done . |
| 20 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 21 | ‘ When I arrived for training this morning , my wife had been on three times and I thought something had happened to my little girl , who was in hospital over the weekend . |
| 22 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had been with supreme effort that he had controlled his temper . |
| 25 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 26 | Newspaper journalists came up with the information that the pachinko barons had been just as liberal with their cash as the Recruit corporation had been with political donations and cheap shares not long before . |
| 27 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 28 | They had been above 8000 metres for several days and Steve recalls being as ‘ nutty as a fruit-cake ’ . |
| 29 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 30 | Or again , the Friar had been in that area when last seen . |