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Have you been there?
Ben je daar geweest?
I have never been there.
Ik ben er nooit geweest.
How often have you been in the Netherlands?
Hoe vaak ben je in Nederland geweest?
Heaven knows what there was in the bed!
De hemel mag weten, wat er in het bed geweest is!
Her grandmother had never before been so beautiful, so big.
Haar grootmoeder was vroeger nooit zo mooi, zo groot geweest.
I have never been to the United States.
Ik ben nooit in de Verenigde Staten geweest.
Tom has been here longer than Mary.
Tom is hier langer geweest dan Mary.
I’ve been married three times.
Ik ben drie keer getrouwd geweest.
He already would have been happy if the ducks would have accepted him around them
Het zou al blij geweest zijn als de eenden hem maar in haar midden geduld hadden
I just went to the sea.
Ik ben louter naar de zee geweest.
Where did you go on your last vacation?
Waar ben je laatst op vakantie geweest?
After he’d been at the festival, he had problems with his hearing.
Nadat hij op het festival was geweest, had hij last van zijn gehoor.
“It stretches far beyond the other side of the trees, until the pastor’s garden; but I have never been there.”
“Die strekt zich nog ver aan de andere kant van het geboomte uit, tot aan de tuin van de pastoor; maar daar ben ik nog nooit geweest.”