Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv prt] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 3 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 4 | Sometimes when we 'd been out to clubs Bernie would give me a lift home to my parents ' , right out in Greenford where we 'd moved just about the time I started keeping twilight hours . |
| 5 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 6 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 7 | Our basement had been out of bounds since the work started , as a large sign on the stairs informed me . |
| 8 | When he was a child , the loft had been out of bounds . |
| 9 | He could be absolutely guaranteed to report to Fagg in the morning that a servant had been out of bounds , and this was no time to get the sack . |
| 10 | Noel Darcy , 23 , of Coventry , had been out with friends when he was attacked by a three or four youths . |
| 11 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |