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 .
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