Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 3 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 4 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 5 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 6 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 7 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 10 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 11 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 12 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 13 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 14 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 15 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 16 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 17 | She had been on drugs then . |
| 18 | We asked if she had been shopping , and she said no , she had been to friends borrowing . |
| 19 | On the other hand , more efficient production was a significant benefit to those who had been on courses . |
| 20 | The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves . |
| 21 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 22 | In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , sociologists and anthropologists , including Émile Durkheim , were interested in the reports of travellers and missionaries who had been to parts of Australasia . |
| 23 | I was accorded a degree of respect appropriate to a man who had been under arms , which was as well as , after rumours of my predilections spread through the warehouse , there were not many willing to share with me . |
| 24 | Clive & Stokes was originally founded at the beginning of 1959 when John Stokes , who had been in personnel management in ICI and Courtaulds and was later to become the Mp for Halesowen and Stourbridge , joined Robert Clive Associates , a small recruitment company . |
| 25 | I once visited a local MIND centre which was a day and short-term residential centre for people who had been in institutions with mental illness . |
| 26 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 27 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 28 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 29 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 30 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |