Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 2 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 3 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 4 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 5 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 6 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 7 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 8 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 9 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 10 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 11 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 12 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 13 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 14 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 15 | She may have had some capital of her own , though many a wife in Victorian times was little better off as one man 's wife than she had been as another man 's daughter : |
| 16 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 17 | He was their paying guest and had been since that afternoon seven years ago when he had tracked Rachel Gebler down to her home in this seaside suburb close to the famous swimming beaches . |
| 18 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 19 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 20 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 21 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 22 | ‘ You never did tell me just exactly what you and Marianne had been to each other in the past . ’ |
| 23 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 24 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 25 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 26 | I knew only that it was dark , and had been for some while . |
| 27 | His interest in humanity now was stone dead , and probably had been for some time . |
| 28 | ‘ That you were having an affair — had been for some time . ’ |
| 29 | According to Alcuin the oppression of the Church by the secular power had been for some time a feature of Northumbrian political and ecclesiastical life , but the problem now was that Eanbald was said to be accompanied on his journeys through Northumbria by a retinue more numerous than any which had attended on his predecessors and inclusive of low-born soldiers , and Alcuin affected to be at a loss as to why he needed so large a force . |
| 30 | At this moment the King , who had been for some time busily writing in his notebook , called out , ‘ Silence ! ’ and read out from his book , ‘ Rule Forty-Two . |