Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 2 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 3 | Only the 107 who had already been to courses were asked this question and the replies are shown in Table 24 . |
| 4 | ‘ He was a devoted husband and had not been on holidays for two years , ’ said Liam . |
| 5 | But everything else had been alive and splendid in a way it had not been for years . |
| 6 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 7 | She could have had fun out there with Kelly , even though neither of them had ever been on skis before . |
| 8 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |
| 9 | She had been only nineteen when the Second World War ended , and by the start of the nineties was the elder statesman in a cabinet which included several who had still been in nappies in 1945 . |
| 10 | The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |
| 11 | There was no one in the staff sitting room , but then , there had n't been for years . |
| 12 | Oh yes and there were eight choir men , you see , well no choir at all there had n't been for years , you see so er and I had a photograph somewhere of my father with eight choir men , you see , and er well after that |
| 13 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 14 | Neither church nor hotel authorities could accommodate canines and Luke had never been to kennels . |
| 15 | The troops reluctantly went to their beds , among them a number who had never been to Pathfinders before , and others who were returning after a time away . |