Example sentences of "had been [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 2 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 3 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 4 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 5 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 6 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 7 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 8 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 9 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |
| 10 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 11 | It had been like this last night . |
| 12 | If only all school trips had been like this . |
| 13 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 14 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 15 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 16 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 17 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |