Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strongest associations we found were between measures of periodontal disease or oral hygiene and total mortality among men under 50 at baseline ( table IV ) . |
| 2 | But they only shots they encountered were from cameras . |
| 3 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 4 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 5 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 6 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 7 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 8 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 9 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 10 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 11 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 12 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 13 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 14 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 15 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 16 | She could almost smell the rich fermentation of silage like there 'd been around parts of Ecoville , or the green alkali of the air-plants . |
| 17 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |
| 20 | The interviews were mostly with women 's magazines , and many of the letters we received were from women , who felt an instinctive sympathy for John and could easily put themselves either in my position or that of John 's mother . |
| 21 | One of the most popular motifs at the time the shop opened was of swans and lions , which came from an old , heraldic design ; another was a Persian print showing a fantastical dog in a jungle of giant thistles . |
| 22 | Until she 'd made up her mind one way or the other , the last thing she needed was for rumours of an imminent retirement from music to start circulating . |
| 23 | The last thing South Africa needed was for tourists , especially British tourists , to be murdered on the beaches . |
| 24 | My delight at everything I saw was beyond bounds — gardens were allotted my sister and self — there was the canal to fish in — a pony to ride — besides animals of different kinds … |
| 25 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 26 | She liked being with women she was fond of . |
| 27 | The picture that emerged was of couples predominantly against the idea of adoption with contact . |
| 28 | The sexual relationship between the victim and accused was on occasions the focal point of the press coverage . |
| 29 | Some sources said that the clashes had been between members of the fundamentalist Adl wal Ihsan ( " justice and charity " ) group and members of the leftist Kaiyidine group . |
| 30 | Graveney explained that his comments in 1987 had been about events during the 1951 England tour of Pakistan . |