Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 3 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 4 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 5 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 6 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 7 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 9 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 10 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 11 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 12 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 13 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 14 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 15 | She had been on drugs then . |
| 16 | We asked if she had been shopping , and she said no , she had been to friends borrowing . |
| 17 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 18 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 19 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 20 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 21 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 22 | Encouraged by the pride of the town authorities , the Guy Fawkes celebrations provided an annual explosion for the town 's poor : deprived as they had been of saints ' days with the advent of Puritanism , they came from the miserable hovels cramped in the town 's back alleys to protest not only against the symbols of oppression but also , in bad years , against the local oligarchy . |
| 23 | It was unreasonable to suppose that an enlargement of Nicholas I 's " personal " principle could fill the vacuum in the countryside , for when the serfs were free they were even more likely to misinterpret dictates from the centre than they had been as bondmen . |
| 24 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 25 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 26 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 27 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 28 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 29 | At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries . |
| 30 | In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns . |