Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 If only all school trips had been like this .
2 I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children
3 The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured .
4 Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave .
5 They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things .
6 It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that .
7 Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later .
8 She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House .
9 He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction .
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