Example sentences of "[vb past] been four " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , where there had been four interlinked Catholic countries before November 1558 , France , Spain , England and Scotland , there were now three ; the possibility of advancing the Protestant cause in Scotland with help from England , dead for five years , was once again open . |
| 3 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 4 | His last sexual encounter before meeting Angela had been four months previously and Angela had not slept with anyone for nine months since breaking up with her previous boy-friend with whom she had been going out tor a year . |
| 5 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 6 | There had been four in the cruiser . |
| 7 | There had been four men in the car . |
| 8 | It had been four days since the of worlder had said what he thought would be required , and still parin had not provided his answer . |
| 9 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 10 | But Luke , she remembered , had been four years old , tall for his age but thin as a stick and pale with excitement , that day , at the journey to Manchester , the speeches , the exalted , psalm-singing atmosphere of the crowds . |
| 11 | It had been four years since Jessamy had seen her , and she did n't seem to have changed at all . |
| 12 | And she kept trying to convince herself that Julius would never carry out his threat , but it had been four very long years that they had been apart . |
| 13 | There had been four women members in the outgoing Majlis , and in the April 10 vote for the first time a women was elected to represent a constituency outside Tehran ( in the holy city of Mashad ) . |
| 14 | It had been four months altogether before he returned to the Works , by which time Andrew Jones had been installed in the showrooms as assistant salesman . |