Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 2 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 3 | When he went round the corner to her room and knocked , she would have to pretend that she had been down to the kitchens . |
| 4 | She had been down to the lochside in the early morning with a basket of crusts and potato peelings for the water birds and had left a row of neat black boot prints in the snow . |
| 5 | If you had been out in the middle of space , far from anything else , they would have stayed put . |
| 6 | They had been on to the energy crisis , for example , years before it hit politics . |
| 7 | Brutally suppressed by bluecoats led by Rope Thrower , known to whites as Kit Carson , in 1863 , they had been out of the major Indian Wars because the Reservation lands given to them were so arid and dreary that even the white man did n't want to kick them off to somewhere else . |
| 8 | Kahane gave him the one for the previous month , explaining that they had been out in the desert for six weeks . |
| 9 | The British emerged from their wars against Louis XIV in a calmer flame of mind than they had been in during the disturbed and excited seventeenth century . |
| 10 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 11 | It had been out of the question to recognise — reluctance . |
| 12 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 13 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 14 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 15 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 16 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 17 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 18 | Most of them had been in from the start , born survivors , born leaders : amongst these lucky few were numbered Rosie Lane , an athletic , pretty , small-faced girl whose father owned a large grocer 's , and whose primal popularity h ) d been cheaply purchased by the judicious distribution of dried apricots and jelly cubes , which the girls devoured whole . |