Example sentences of "[vb past] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 2 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 3 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 4 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 5 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 7 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 8 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 9 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 10 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 11 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 12 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 13 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 14 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 15 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 16 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 17 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 18 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 19 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 20 | Recounting the history of Bilmarsh farm , Gough observed : ‘ Nathaniell Reve had a desire to been tenant of this farme , because his grandfather and father had been tenants to it before ’ . |
| 21 | Some 580,000 Estonians took part , exclusively people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Estonia and their descendants ; most of Estonia 's political parties fielded candidates , some with Popular Front endorsement . |
| 22 | Ahead of the Latvian Supreme Soviet session , the radical nationalist National Independence Movement organized on April 30-May 1 a rival " Congress of Latvia " , elected in privately organized elections in which only people who had been citizens of the pre-war independent Latvia and their descendants were eligible to vote . |
| 23 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 24 | Not that those centuries had been times of uninterrupted peace . |
| 25 | There had been times in her life when she had been — if not happy , then content . |
| 26 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 27 | Last night Airtours admitted there had been problems with the apartments and apologised . |
| 28 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 29 | There had been problems in his relationship with his girlfriend and indeed he 'd come to see my firm about six months ago because of the deterioration in that relationship and had general advice then about his legal position should there be a separation . |
| 30 | Ukraine and Byelarus had been members since 1945 , the three Baltic states joined in September 1991 [ see p. 38458 ] , Russia assumed the Soviet Union 's seat in December [ see p. 38744 ] , and the eight joining on March 2 were Armenia , Azerbaijan , Kazakhstan , Kirgizstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan . |