Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] and " 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 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Britain 's initial position of support for Cramra had been to all intents and purposes relinquished by the end of the meeting . |
| 6 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 7 | We had been to Euro Disney and had a toy gun for Matthew . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There is evidence to suggest that the walls which carried these pictures were not normally plastered but panelled , though plaster is used in the tombs of Etruria and Paestum , as it had been in Bronze-age palaces and was to be in Hellenistic tombs in Greece ( below , p. 176 ) . |
| 17 | Luiza , who was always very happy singing Czipra as she spent most of the evening sitting on a gypsy log , had been in superb voice and Therese — Busacher gloated — Therese had made one or two of the more discerning wonder what she was going to do in some of the other productions . |
| 18 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 19 | ‘ Denis had been in good voice and fine spirits that night . |
| 20 | The most staggering growth had been in public employment and in social security transfer payments , two forms of growth politicians find very hard to limit . |
| 21 | But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache . |
| 22 | Going on to the last lap Dunlop had matters well in hand but further down the field behind McCallen there was drama when Alan Patterson , who had been in third place and going well , suddenly shot through the final bend and took the wrong road for the second time today losing his chance of a place . |