Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 2 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 3 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 5 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 6 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 7 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 8 | For this one date they were supported by the Billy Harper Trio with Peter Stuart and Adrian Tilbrook on bass and drums and they fitted in as if they 'd all been on tour together . |
| 9 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 10 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 11 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 12 | The mist , blotting out Wickrithe , seemed to banish her tension and sense of danger ; she and Adam were alone and safe , as they 'd always been on Starr Hills . |
| 13 | The chief reason I 'd always been against abortion was that it seemed like tearing up a bill instead of paying it . |
| 14 | But er , yes er , I would have been er , I think if I 'd still been in Jim 's place , er quite rightly so , getting all that we can for the town . |
| 15 | It was the first time she 'd ever been on board ship . |
| 16 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 17 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 18 | On that holiday they er they 'd also been to Cairo as well as , and I mean some of the erm trips erm are they go to Luxor and you board a erm er the ship from Luxor to Aswan and you do n't get to Cairo and I think if you 're going to Egypt you really want to go to Cairo |
| 19 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 20 | She was even beginning to wonder if she 'd really been in love with Hugh — properly in love . |
| 21 | Well when we went there was Phyllis , Julie , and me and I was in the middle of because I 'd never been on ice skates before , I 'd been roller skating holding each side of them right , and they let me go and I just went and I was going down and I went bang right on the bloody side . |
| 22 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 23 | Well I 'd never been on stage in my life before and there I was , suddenly going to be in front of King George and Queen Mary . |
| 24 | I 'd never been to London then . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 26 | But er there there were there were some pe our , our , on the bench that we we had a really , cross section on the bench that I worked on , there were very , women , one woman she 'd never been to work in her life . |
| 27 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 28 | I do n't know if she 's gone alone or with some , or with a friend , but er she said she wanted to , she 'd never been to California and she wanted to go before she was too old and crotchety to get there because David 's he 's in no fit state to go anywhere any more . |
| 29 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 30 | Still , it sounded like a fascinating challenge , and she 'd never been to Sheffield before , so it would give her an opportunity to see another little bit of the world . |