Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 6 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 7 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 8 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 9 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 10 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 11 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 12 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 13 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
| 14 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 15 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 16 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 17 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 18 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 19 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 20 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 23 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 24 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 25 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 26 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 27 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 28 | And I think er Well Pat and I have discussed that a little bit as well , cos I 've been under some pressure in this direction with Alice . |
| 29 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been through all this once , Cassie — with Bella . |