Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [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 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 16 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 19 | The fourteen-gallon tank had been about one quarter full of fuel , and both it and a second partially-filled tank were each found to contain over a quarter of a pint of water , the result of condensation forming in the tanks over a six-day period . |
| 20 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 21 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 22 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 23 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 24 | 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 : |
| 25 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 28 | Faith had been of certain mind but easier to please . |
| 29 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 30 | The council convener , Robert Gough , who presented a plaque to the crew , said it was with regret that they said goodbye to the squadron , which had been of great comfort to people in difficulty on land and sea . |