Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 2 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 3 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
| 4 | GUIL : I thought we 'd been into all that . |
| 5 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 6 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 7 | You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery . |
| 8 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 9 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 10 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 11 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 12 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 13 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 14 | She would likely never see her sister again , so that in her mind she would always be as she had been on that last walk over the moor to Barnswick . |
| 15 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 16 | They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had . |
| 17 | They had been through all this before . |
| 18 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 19 | She had been over all this a thousand times in the real world , the world she privately thought of as the world of things . |
| 20 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 21 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |
| 22 | It had been like this last night . |
| 23 | The details of a complaint by the master tailors of London in 1721 show that the organisation revealed in evidence at a trial in 1765 and described again in 1818 by Francis Place as a " perfect combination " had been by that last year in existence for a century . |
| 24 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 25 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 26 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 27 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 28 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 29 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 30 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |