Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 2 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 3 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 4 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 5 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 6 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 7 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 8 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 9 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 10 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 11 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 12 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 13 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 14 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 15 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 16 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 17 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 18 | But , if it had been either of these , how would they get into the Tower , mysteriously ring a tocsin bell and then arrange for Mowbray 's fall ? |
| 19 | Harriet Tremayne , her mother , had been strongly against this , but Tom , her husband , a charming , indolent and indulgent man , had argued , with a certain degree of logic , that ‘ the girl had to do some kind of war work ’ and that it was better for her ‘ to do something she had set her heart on ’ . |
| 20 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 21 | The average thermal efficiency of French steam power stations , which had been well below that in Britain initially , was to overtake it in the later 1950s , as the more advanced French sets were commissioned ; and France caught up with American levels of thermal efficiency , while Britain remained behind . |
| 22 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 23 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 24 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 25 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 26 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 27 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 28 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 29 | Then he held out his arms and she went into them , laughing , wiping out the days they had been apart in that one eager meeting . |
| 30 | Muldoon nervously introduced the plan , saying that as Fred Klepner had been over on special assignment from Detroit to help Mark in the final preparation of the Plan and the presentation , he would hand over to Fred and let him take the committee through the proposals . |