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

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1 yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road
2 At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months .
3 I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea .
4 I 'd never been in this room before .
5 The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are .
6 I say that I thought we had already been through all this .
7 Surely Faye had already been through enough !
8 Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance .
9 Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed .
10 Although Marie said nothing , she had not been at all worried about Gazzer getting hurt .
11 Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur .
12 It had not been at all like that .
13 I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before .
14 His slumber had not been at all restful .
15 So far though the viewers had not been at all suitable .
16 But things had not been at all what they 'd seemed — though she was bound by her promise never to reveal the truth .
17 Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time .
18 ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ .
19 ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’
20 I had not been to such a party since before Leslie went to North Africa , and talking to Ika and his friends on a balcony canopied by a starry sky , I felt a spurt of pleasure , quickly followed by a surge of guilt : Leslie was dead , and I was alive , and capable of enjoying some temporary diversion .
21 He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups .
22 She had not been in that position .
23 The proportions reported to have had difficulty with various aspects of caring for themselves ( getting in and out of a bath or shower , dressing and undressing , going to the toilet , washing and shaving , feeding themselves , making a hot drink , or needing help at night ) for a year or more before death was 87 per cent of those who had been in a residential home for a year or more , 60 per cent of those in for a shorter time and 25 per cent of those who had not been in such a home at all .
24 She would have liked Nice — if she had not been in such a hurry to be in Paris .
25 ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury .
26 Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember .
27 She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this .
28 Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one .
29 But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession .
30 He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right .
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