Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were a striking couple — tall , slim and very , very pale against old hands who 'd been here for days or even weeks . |
| 2 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 3 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 4 | Once at the hospital , Liz was taken to the delivery room immediately and Mark went off to find the waiting room , which was full of exhausted partners who 'd been there for hours . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 6 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 8 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 9 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 10 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 11 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 12 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 13 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 14 | The earlier specification of the ‘ liberal arts ’ had been primarily of branches of knowledge . |
| 15 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 16 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 17 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 18 | She was sitting on the opposite side of the grate and Louise Carter thought fleetingly how proud Nora had always been of her daughter even when they had been dramatically at loggerheads and how pleased she would be if she could see her now , in her elegant black dress and silver jewellery . |
| 19 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 20 | Our basement had been out of bounds since the work started , as a large sign on the stairs informed me . |
| 21 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 22 | He could be absolutely guaranteed to report to Fagg in the morning that a servant had been out of bounds , and this was no time to get the sack . |
| 23 | Noel Darcy , 23 , of Coventry , had been out with friends when he was attacked by a three or four youths . |
| 24 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 25 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 26 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 27 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 28 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 29 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 30 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |