Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 2 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 3 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 4 | She had been to most of the early-morning markets as far as Hyères . |
| 5 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 6 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 7 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 8 | For instance , the single person 's National Insurance retirement pension in 1990 is worth 26 per cent more than unemployment benefit , whereas back in 1972 they were paid at the same rate and had been for most of the period since 1948 . |
| 9 | Once , in a very bad patch , Jasper had been like that for weeks , over a month , and she had lived in terror for the knock of the police at the door , and news about Jasper she had been dreading since she had first met him . |
| 10 | Oh Ven , she wanted to cry — it had been like that for him too ! |
| 11 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 12 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 13 | But Benedict 's eyes were on her , as compelling a question in them as had been in those of his godmother . |