Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 2 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 3 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 4 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 5 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 6 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 7 | And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years . |
| 8 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 9 | She 'd been at it for the past half-hour , ever since she 'd arrived to interrupt Rory 's precious sunbathing break . |
| 10 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 11 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 12 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 13 | Well probably cos somebody 'd been with them . |
| 14 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 15 | He 'd been with him years . |
| 16 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 17 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 18 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew my mum because she 'd been with me at the hospital and I remembered my grandad because of his bald head . |
| 20 | If you 'd been with me , I might have stiffened myself and gone on with it . |
| 21 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 22 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 23 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 24 | Of their evening together , of how forthcoming he 'd been with his information . |
| 25 | Sure she 'd been with you , SOE . |
| 26 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 27 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 28 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 29 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 30 | So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed . |