Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 2 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 3 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 4 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 5 | So she would tell herself when she was sick and retching and dizzy , in a week or two , as she 'd been with Liam . |
| 6 | Buzz remembered Nurse Evans , who 'd been with Nell in Ward C at La Chapelle ; after the war , Evans had worked in one of those rich bins before she 'd married a Lutheran minister and gone to live in Scotland . |
| 7 | David Harper , from Uckington , no relation to the twins , who 'd been with Rebecca , and Wisdom Smith , who was with Emma , both told the police they 'd jumped from bales of blazing straw . |
| 8 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 9 | If you 'd been on Bupa . |
| 10 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 11 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 12 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 13 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 14 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 15 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 16 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 17 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 18 | Yet they 'd been to Spain , Italy and Greece time after time , and surely it would have been natural for Isabelle to want to show off the country of her birth . |
| 19 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 20 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 21 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 22 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 23 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 24 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 25 | MI5 decided to do a trace on pretty well everybody who 'd been to Cambridge and Oxford during the thirties and showed communist sympathies . |
| 26 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 27 | I 'd have told him all about the breastfeeding and bonding if the Morrisons had n't chosen that moment to arrive on the doorstep with Christopher and Katy who 'd been to Bertelli 's for their weekly dose of colourings , preservatives and sugar . |
| 28 | Did he tell you w he 'd been to Hill Hotel . |
| 29 | A long time ago , she 'd learned just how dear she 'd been to Ewan Famber : an experiment . |
| 30 | Cos , Claire was saying when they went , they went , they 'd been to Wales , France , and Scotland while they 've been here he said , . |