Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been friends with Annie long enough to know when she was holding back on her . |
| 2 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 3 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 4 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 6 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 7 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 8 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 9 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 10 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 11 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 12 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 13 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 14 | After a heart-to-heart talk , she had gently ordered him home for the rest of the week , and since that time they had been friends in a reserved sort of way . |
| 15 | It had been forty years since he had first met Felicity ; they had been students at the Sorbonne reading a course entitled ‘ Civilisation francaise ’ , paid for by their indulgent fathers . |
| 16 | The windows were barred with white painted shutters covered with curtains of crimson velvet , her feet rested on a Turkey carpet and the walls were as thickly covered with pictures as if they had been pages in a stamp collection . |
| 17 | Yet when I emerged from that heaven-haven of sexual absolution , I would feel guilty , frightened , torn between happiness at being liberated from overwhelming sexual tension and the scared wonder of the events , as if they had been rituals in a half-remembered primitive religion . |
| 18 | In the event , permission was given for Paisley and Beattie to go forward because they had been members of the Stormont Parliament before it had been suspended . |
| 19 | People were asked what crimes they had been victims of ( victim study ) and about their own law-breaking ( self-report study ) , and they were also asked about their attitudes towards the police and policing . |
| 20 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 21 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 22 | True , they had been vassals of China for nine long centuries — but had n't their hearts " like iron and stone " enabled them at last to throw off the Chinese yoke when the Tang dynasty crumbled ? |
| 23 | They had been desires to be quenched , as he had quenched other desires over the years . |
| 24 | Eighty girls who had lived in one of two children 's homes in 1964 , when they had been subjects of a study by Jack Tizard and his colleagues , were traced and interviewed by Quinton and his colleagues , when they were aged between twenty-one and twenty-seven years . |
| 25 | Maureen 's attempt to move into her father 's office and her subsequent compromise of commandeering a desk in the room outside it had been gestures of little practical effect . |
| 26 | In so far as these involved Thorkell after 1021 it is worth remembering that Olaf and he had been associates in the army of 1009 – 12 , and that both had later served Æthelred . |
| 27 | If the Headmaster had discovered he had been friends with the Bookman all along , he was in deep , deep trouble . |