Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accepted rate at which New York life moved was at least three factors faster than in London . |
| 2 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 3 | I 'd been of less practical help , but Terry had encouraged me to make general criticisms of the scheme . |
| 4 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 5 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 6 | She just had to have someone to talk about Fred to , and Jane , who 'd been through exactly the same cycle of experiences with him as Doris had , only one floor below , was the ideal person . " |
| 7 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 8 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 9 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 10 | She 'd been through so much with an alcoholic daughter , unemployed husband and dyslexic son . |
| 11 | They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together . |
| 12 | They 'd been out and er I do n't know who they 'd been with like but he must of had a bit to drink . |
| 13 | We 'd been on surprisingly good terms up till then . |
| 14 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 15 | yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married . |
| 16 | Nothing she 'd care to trust too far , but it made the atmosphere a lot easier than the last time she 'd been in here with the door closed . |
| 17 | She 'd been in here for at least fifteen minutes , maybe longer . |
| 18 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 19 | She had no idea she 'd been in there so long . |
| 20 | I 'd been in there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America . |
| 21 | There was n't gon na be single parent families with three children , er living above an old age pensioner who 'd been in there from the word go . |
| 22 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 23 | Yeah she 'd been in there about seven or eight months I think . |
| 24 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 25 | Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really |
| 26 | The annihilation had all but occurred in far-off Europe , but that with which he wrestled was of even deeper concern — the cessation of the faith from within . |
| 27 | had erm eggs , butter , tea , everything you could you needed was in there , and tins of all different kind of soup and were apples , oranges , everything was in there , in the parcel . |
| 28 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 29 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 30 | The image presented was of potentially active individuals bereft both of health and satisfaction through enforced retirement from economic activity . |