Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I could still remember what I had been through as Richie Quick . |
| 2 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 3 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 4 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 8 | I had been down in my pantry working through the supplies sheets , when I had heard somewhere above my head the unmistakable sounds of motor cars pulling up in the courtyard . |
| 9 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 10 | In March 1922 ‘ snobbish clerks ’ on the Moscow Kursk line , which had been on of the most revolutionary , in 1905 and 1917 , were refusing to attend meetings where common signalman and the like were to be found . |
| 11 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 12 | Research identified that retailers were using cheap methods of display which had been around since the 1950's . |
| 13 | Something which had been out of place ? |
| 14 | Wolfgang Rosch , the deputy commander of the Leipzig worker 's militia , which had been out in force during recent demonstrations , admitted that members ‘ had the same concerns as the people who were on the streets ’ . |
| 15 | Clara was astonished ; she could compare the room to nothing in her experience , nothing at all , unless it were perhaps to those studiously , tediously visited ancient homes which she had been round on various bank holidays during her childhood . |
| 16 | It was a personal matter , and she had no intention of telling a snooty foreign doctor about the troubles she had been through with Ken Noakes from Audiology . |
| 17 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 18 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 19 | By the time she reappeared , she had been up to Scotland and back , to spend the weekend with Charles at the Queen Mother 's home , Birkhall . |
| 20 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 21 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 22 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 24 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 25 | Jodie Cooper from Australia told me that she had been out at Haleiwa when Johnny Boy got it into his head that she had robbed him of his wave . |
| 26 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 27 | She had been out with her boy friend on one occasion and her parents had tried to be more accepting of her relationship with him . |
| 28 | Her last thought before she fell asleep was the reaction she would get if they knew that she had been out with a policeman . |
| 29 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 30 | It seemed a long time since she had been out of her apartment , longer still since she had taken a walk . |