Example sentences of "been [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ But he and Jerry have been through a lot together and I 'm sure they will sort things out , ’ he added . |
| 2 | Never having been aboard a ship before , she found she had a natural liking for the sea life : she suffered no seasickness at all , and as João had sent an excellent chef to cook her meals , she dined well and developed a taste for the green wine of Portugal . |
| 3 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 4 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd never been near a Haggis before — far less cooked one . |
| 6 | Reacting against the momentary quality of Impressionism , which had been like a window suddenly opened out on to nature from a sheltered interior , against all forms of violent personal expression , against the decorative and symbolic element which had characterized the work of the Nabis and Gauguin and so much late nineteenth-century painting , and even against the Fauves ( and the strong fin de siècle flavour of Fauvism has never been sufficiently acknowledged or stressed ) , the Cubists saw their paintings as constructed objects having their own independent existence , as small , self-contained worlds , not reflecting the outside world but recreating it in a completely new form . |
| 7 | Topaz had never been with a man before , but some instinct told her how to arouse Andrew . |
| 8 | I had never been with a killer before . |
| 9 | At the same time he knew that she would be aware that he had never been with a woman before . |
| 10 | ‘ Ever been inside a factory before ? ’ |
| 11 | It was apparent to Miss Wharton , on that first day , that he had never been inside a church before , but neither then nor on any subsequent visit did he evince the least curiosity about its purpose . |
| 12 | Marie could not remember ever having been inside a hospital before . |
| 13 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 14 | I listened in even though I had heard most of it before and then we were told that anybody who had never been in a canoe before had to carry out capsize drills . |
| 15 | ‘ However , he damaged his spine over twenty years ago , after being thrown from his horse , and has been in a wheelchair ever since . ’ |
| 16 | And I think what I was trying to say , get over last time was that this has been in a sense practically inverted in American politics today . |
| 17 | It was possible she had never been in a tunnel before , except perhaps in a car going quickly through some underpass . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you been in a catapult before ? ’ |
| 19 | Movement , in Western music , even as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , has always been in a direction away from the diatonic and through dissonance . |
| 20 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |
| 21 | In fact , afterwards the doctor told me that the training had probably helped and that I might have been in a lot more serious trouble if I had not been so fit . |
| 22 | You would n't want one that had been in a smash anyway , it could |
| 23 | Otherwise , ’ she added , looking across at him , ‘ I would never have been in a boat alone , would I ? |
| 24 | Have you ever been in a situation even remotely like this with family , friends , or working colleagues ? |
| 25 | You wanted at least one person who had been in a commune before , Mary said , and perhaps you ought to advertise along those lines . |
| 26 | It may have been from a lamp outside , but in my nervous state I did not think of that . |
| 27 | we 're off grass track racing now … one of the country 's biggest meetings was held in Oxfordshire at the weekend … and if you 've never been to a race before … sit back and watch this … it 's exciting stuff … |
| 28 | He had never been to a church before . |
| 29 | I have n't been to a service here for years . ’ |
| 30 | Now erm , I have n't been to a match lately , but these pictures I 've seen , there 's still all these fences around to stop people doing that . |