Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 5 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 6 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 7 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 9 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 10 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 16 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |
| 19 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I had been on all the northern capitals . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 24 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 26 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |
| 27 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 28 | Labelled ‘ bankrupt ’ the whole family which had been at one with their neighbours found themselves set apart . |
| 29 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |
| 30 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |