Example sentences of "been [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring . |
| 3 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 4 | I have been through all these emotions myself . |
| 5 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 6 | The general rule here is that dukes are a better topic than baronets , especially dukes who have been through several expensive duchesses ( you can never have enough ex- duchesses ) . |
| 7 | You see , we 've been through this public witch hunt before . |
| 8 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 9 | Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so . |
| 10 | ‘ The North has been through some hard times , and things are changing . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't think we 'd be together for so long but we 've grown up together and been through some brutal things . ’ |
| 12 | Been through some bad times , you see . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been through some interesting times of late , ’ Lucy told him , and smiled along with him when she saw that he understood the reference she was making . |
| 14 | Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died . |
| 15 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 16 | And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies . |
| 17 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 18 | Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the bands are reshuffled , the trials will have been of little practical value . |
| 23 | This has been because social psychology has had few ways of handling the macro-level political , economic and social change which has been of such great interest to sociologists . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Had she been of any other class , he would long ago have stormed her defences and conquered . |
| 26 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 27 | There was no one else in the hotel who could have been of any possible interest to the assassins . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been like that all day . |
| 29 | It had been like this last night . |
| 30 | ‘ And what 's she been like these last months ? ’ |