Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [verb] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gang-girl she had been seemed as remote from her as the child she had been before that . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 3 | ( Everyone is someone 's cousin in Bala , and a great help it has been on several occasions . ) |
| 4 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 5 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 6 | Changing the subject quickly , I wondered how great an inspiration she had been to all those women out there in their 40s who lacked her drive to embark on a new career . |
| 7 | The later books are in large measure accurately described , and the experience of the assimilated Jew in Italy , where the Jews came to harm under Mussolini but where they were never the strangers they have been in several other countries , is summarised in a well-informed and pertinent fashion . |
| 8 | But it may be that the things they have been through these past few hundred years have exaggerated some of their original characteristics . |
| 9 | Then I shout Consider the people I 've been around all my life , stylists , models , actors , producers , seat-warmers , air-sniffers , knee-crookers , cuecard-readers , place-men , moneymen — funny men , not straight men . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | somebody at work , what 's a matter love you 've been like this since you 've got up have n't you ? |
| 12 | ‘ Father Poole , you ca n't imagine the hell I 've been through these past few weeks . ’ |
| 13 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 14 | My mind 's a blank I 've been in that many different jobs now . |
| 15 | Yeah , but they 're not , the whole idea is that they 're not , they do n't wan na ask , they 're not prepared to ask it 's not right It should be provided by the school they 've been against that whole thing . |
| 16 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 17 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation . |
| 21 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 24 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |