Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
4 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
5 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
6 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
15 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
16 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
17 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
18 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
19 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
20 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
21 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
22 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
23 | And this was the day to do it the Women of the North lunch in Harrogate , like the Woman of the Year in London ‘ only much friendlier and more fun ’ according to a lady who 'd been to both . |
24 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
25 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
26 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
27 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
28 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
29 | She had been to all the parentcraft classes , and had not learnt a thing . ’ |
30 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |