Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Find out if any of them has been linked to Hendrique over the past few months . |
| 2 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 3 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 4 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 6 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 7 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 8 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 9 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 10 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 11 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 12 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 13 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 14 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 16 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 17 | I 'd been shopping in Smiths and I thought I recognised him . |
| 18 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 19 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 20 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 21 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 22 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 23 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 24 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 25 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 26 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 27 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 28 | No , I was looking forward to the Open because I 'd been stationed at Formby for my army service and I was anticipating meeting all my old friends from that time . |
| 29 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 30 | ‘ I had been invited to Miss Havisham 's to see if she liked me . |