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 | You could spot where it had just been by aeroplanes and helicopters taking off in a hurry . |
| 5 | She could have had fun out there with Kelly , even though neither of them had ever been on skis before . |
| 6 | I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The two , who had once been like brothers , went out for a drive along the back road between Darlington and Sedgefield . |
| 9 | Neither church nor hotel authorities could accommodate canines and Luke had never been to kennels . |
| 10 | 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 . |