Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 2 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 3 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 4 | Alone of the 15 union republics , the Russian Federation previously had been without its own Communist Party , its party organizations being an integral part of the CPSU . |
| 5 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 6 | It seemed that she had been on her own forever . |
| 7 | Gemma , 11 , found fending for herself in her west London home while her mother , 31 , was on holiday in Spain , was taken in by Hammersmith Council on February 1 after complaints that she had been on her own for two days . |
| 8 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 9 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |
| 10 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 11 | I had a son , and my mother was delighted , as she had been with her own son . |
| 12 | Smooth and firm it had been under her own nervous touch , and she watched Miguel 's muscles , catching the sunlight as he dismounted and reached up to help her . |
| 13 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |