Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 2 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 3 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 4 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 5 | I 'd forgotten you 'd been in it . ’ |
| 6 | We used we used to have someone who we used to know who 'd been in one of the big houses . |
| 7 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 8 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 9 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 10 | How did she know it had been like that ? |
| 11 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 12 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 13 | It was very difficult to remember who had been for what at which particular period . |
| 14 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 15 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 16 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 17 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 18 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 19 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 20 | I lay in bed that night , trying to remember what had been in the bag . |
| 21 | Maggie realized she 'd been in the wrong . |
| 22 | She confirmed she had been to Hawaii with the hunk and said : ‘ We all had a laugh , that 's all . |
| 23 | He claimed she had been in severe financial difficulties at the time . |
| 24 | But she claimed she liked being with him , she liked making him happy , and she liked doing what he did . |
| 25 | Tact and discretion he had used , and he dared say that Dierdriu had been told who had been at the back of it . |
| 26 | But one worker confirmed they had been in the office and seemed to be completely genuine . |
| 27 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 28 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 29 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 30 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |