Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 2 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 3 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 6 | I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion |
| 7 | , we went in the August and they were back by September , so he could start back well school and I 'd been in , in the summer holidays and they said and I felt poor little bastard , got to start a new school , he ai n't gon na know anybody |
| 8 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 9 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 10 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 11 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 12 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 13 | But Bicker had seen her wandering Glenbrittle , and she had been to the bothy . |
| 14 | The profession was too professional , a long study , and she had been at university , a giddy time . |
| 15 | But she had lived inside the Dark Realm for many months , she had been forced to see the terrible creatures that hold sway there , and she had been at Medoc 's mercy for all of that time . |
| 16 | All he had wanted was to slake his own desires , and she had been on hand , a willing and eager victim . |
| 17 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 18 | They had walked quite some miles , she realised on the return journey , and she had been in his company for quite some while , so it came as no surprise to also realise how totally unsuited she was for the job she was there to do . |
| 19 | But initially there had to be a real , genuine erm working class revolution and therefore Marx looked first to England because we were the most advanced and we 'd been in the business of running capitalism for s so much longer than any other country in the world . |
| 20 | There were one night the door and we 'd been in quarantine you know for th that three weeks . |
| 21 | There was a dawdle in its pace , and there had been times when it had halted completely , other times when it had slowed to a crawl . |
| 22 | She had been getting though the days — and nights — without too many problems , and there had been times when she had almost felt happy . |
| 23 | And there 'd been like a half door going to the shop like there you know . |
| 24 | They 'd been to the hospital , and they 'd been over the flat so I said to them well pop the blankets on and come over here then and have your supper and go back . |
| 25 | However fourteen days later they were still pulling out er live babies and they 'd been in there in the rubble for fourteen days . |
| 26 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 27 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 28 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 29 | Dominic was dead , and he had been in my bedroom barely half an hour before he was killed . |
| 30 | Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford . |