Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 2 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 3 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 4 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 5 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 6 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 7 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 8 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 9 | I had been into Zambia , but not very often |
| 10 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 11 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 12 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 13 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 14 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 15 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 16 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 17 | I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder . |
| 18 | I HAD been to Lourdes before . |
| 19 | I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors . |
| 20 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 21 | I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up . |
| 22 | I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober . |
| 23 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 24 | A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications . |
| 25 | I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen . |
| 26 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 27 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 28 | Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens . |
| 29 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 30 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |