Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [prep] [noun sg] " 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 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 . ’
6 I 'd been to sea for a few years .
7 And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes .
8 ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school :
9 Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there .
10 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 .
11 I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
16 I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 I 'd been in Drake Hall a week .
20 ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’
21 It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge .
22 Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea .
23 That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way .
24 Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
25 I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing .
26 Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me .
27 I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work .
28 I had been to church , but I did n't tell her .
29 ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’
30 " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu .
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