Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " 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 ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together .
4 You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them .
5 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 .
6 Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening .
7 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
8 I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism .
9 And that 's infuriated supporters of former Prime Minister Lady Thatcher who was turned down by the same people for an honorary degree after she 'd been at Ten Downing Street for five years .
10 I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season .
11 She told the court she 'd been with two girlfriends to the Nightclub in Nottingham city centre , where it was a monthly gay night .
12 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 .
13 V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course .
14 Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years .
15 ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ?
16 So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along .
17 I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen .
18 Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college .
19 She 'd been to three lectures .
20 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 .
21 They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again .
22 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 .
23 If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days .
24 They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together .
25 After I 'd been in three years , I got married .
26 She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most .
27 ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her .
28 I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’
29 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 .
30 If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer .
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