Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 2 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 3 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 4 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 5 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 6 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 7 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 8 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 9 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 10 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 11 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 12 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 13 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 14 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 15 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 16 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 17 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 18 | The only certainty was that it was not Brian , for Brian had been away during that crucial week of Tina 's cycle , doing an electrical job in Aberdeen . |
| 19 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 20 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 21 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 22 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 23 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |
| 24 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 25 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |
| 26 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 27 | However , there were people there who were ‘ greatly desiring that she had been out of that country ’ , and she bustled off to York , where the Archbishop paid a man five shillings to lead her out of the town . |
| 28 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 29 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 30 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |