Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of an hour , only one ‘ little feller ’ too young to know better had been in Auguste 's possession , and William and Joseph were scarcely able to restrain their mirth . |
| 2 | Quite apart form the new radical Arab regimes , the Soviet Union remained a bellicoes , threatening neighbour — as Russia almost always had been to Persia . |
| 3 | After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C . |
| 4 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 5 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |
| 6 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 7 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |