Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 2 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 3 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 7 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 8 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 9 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 10 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 11 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 12 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 13 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 14 | He continued on across the road and down by the side of the church , heading south towards Pimlico , trying to imagine how it had been on that September day all those years ago . |
| 15 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 16 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 17 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 18 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 19 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 20 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 21 | Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had been like that before she died . |
| 22 | He composed his blends not only according to the flavour of the juice , but also according to what the weather had been like that year — an early or late development , depending on the amount of cold or rain there had been — and according to whether the vines had grown a rich or mediocre foliage . |
| 23 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 24 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 25 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 26 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 27 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 28 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 29 | Oh Ven , she wanted to cry — it had been like that for him too ! |
| 30 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |