Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [det] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 2 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 3 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 4 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 5 | She had been through enough already . |
| 6 | Besides , they had been through enough together for Colonel Windsor to know that Tubby was a man — or , at least , he had been . |
| 7 | And he was also sometimes a little overwhelming ( Uncle Dimitri had been like that too ) . |
| 8 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 9 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |