Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems only appropriate to begin this chapter by establishing the limits of the subject , because not everyone has been in agreement as to where influence ends and control begins . |
| 2 | Oh that 's not so bad you see I 've been on holiday all last week |
| 3 | The exam educates youngsters cheaply up to a level that is not reached in other countries until someone has been at university for a year . |
| 4 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 5 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 6 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 7 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 8 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 9 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 13 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 14 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 15 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 16 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 17 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 18 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 19 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 20 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 21 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 22 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 23 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 24 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 25 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 26 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 27 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 28 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 29 | I 'd been in Drake Hall a week . |
| 30 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |