Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 2 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 3 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 6 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 7 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 8 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 9 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 10 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 11 | And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step |
| 12 | And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years . |
| 13 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 14 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 15 | She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night . |
| 16 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 17 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 18 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 19 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 20 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 21 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 22 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 23 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
| 24 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 25 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 26 | ‘ Because you 'd been to Nice . |
| 27 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 30 | But one , one of the coloured chaps where Tasha works said he was he 'd been to one of these Blind Dates , he was on but we have n't come across him yet have we ? |