"There had recently been riots in Morocco due to the cost of wheat going up, so I traveled there to bake alongside Arab women in a large village oven.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

Look at line fifty-five: "Ay me, I fondly dream! / ?" Had ye been there -- for what could that have done?"

看第55行：“哎，我啊！，我在痴呆的幻想/,如果你们女神们在那儿，又能怎样呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

I had been living in Japan for two years prior to meeting her. I'd been over there,

在认识她之前，我在日本住了两年。那段时间我一直呆在日本，

从朋友到恋人 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I know that there had been religious traditions that had been taught and believed in this possibility.

我知道有些宗教理念,会去教人们,相信这种可能。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and I think that since Enron and Worldcom, there had been a lot of regulatory changes

我觉得安然和世通的事情之后，有好多规章调整

美国的会计丑闻 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Well, I had been there before when I was younger and I didn't really like it.

好吧，我年轻的时候去过那里，但我不喜欢它。

对纽约的印象 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

PROFESSOR: 1. So, I tricked you a little, I guess I didn't put an s up there and that's what we had been talking about, so that was probably the issue.

我没有用，我们开始,一直讨论的s轨道，可能这就是你们错的地方，但我们发现。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

When I was working in a place called Tulle, which is down here--t-u-l-l-e, not Tours, but Tulle-- I knew vaguely that there had been a massacre there in June sixth, 1944, and a lot of people had been hung.

我在一个叫蒂勒的地方工作的时候,在这里t-u-l-l-e,不是图尔是蒂勒,我大概记得,在1944年六月六号那里有个大屠杀,很多人被吊死了

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选