Example sentences of "[noun] we [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 2 | The Whitehall canteens your clubs any restaurants we 've been in … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 4 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 5 | He mentioned old times , the Army , you know , places we 'd been to . |
| 6 | In the 23 hours we had been in transit on a scheduled 32-hour flight from London Heathrow , we had become fairly observant . |
| 7 | Of course we 've been in touch by phone but I wanted to see how things were … |
| 8 | So I bought her some fruit pastilles again just while we were waiting for the train , but funnily enough , the last few times we 've been at the station , Bobby |
| 9 | Earlier that day we had been in the yard of a house near the front line , among groves of frost-damaged mandarins , where a unit of some 50 Georgians was preparing to ‘ clean ’ a group of Abkhazians ( or Russians , as the Georgians claimed ) from their side of the river . |
| 10 | All this week we 've been on expedition with the British team as they tackle the Camel Trophy through Brazil and Guyana . |
| 11 | but for some reason we 'd been to Gateshead , and I 'd looked up food processors in the Argos catalogue |
| 12 | I had pictures in my mind of all the sex fantasies we had been through … . |
| 13 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 14 | That 's the last time we 've been to Suffolk . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been snowing heavily all the time we 've been in the hall . |
| 16 | This is the first time we 've been in a University . |
| 17 | For some time we 've been in a false position and our two games against Birmingham have confirmed this . |
| 18 | It 's the first time we have been on a coach holiday and we were a bit apprehensive . |
| 19 | It 's , it was , it was er er sheer coincidence that Beverley had been to Crete the year before and I said to Jackie we 've been to Yugoslavia four years , do you want , do you want a change or do you wan na go back to Yugoslavia , she said well I 'll , I 'll have a look , I said how about , how about going to the Greek islands for a change |
| 20 | At Canjuers we had been on the shooting range one afternoon , zeroing our FA-MASs on targets 200 metres away . |