Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone with Walker 's pace and knowhow would be a prize addition to a defence which has not been at its ruthless best during the Gunners ' recent barren run . |
| 2 | ‘ Brother Tutilo has not been in my especial care until this journey , ’ he said carefully , ‘ but I have always found him truly devoted to our house of Ramsey . |
| 3 | ‘ We are interested but that 's as far as it has gone because Alex Ferguson has shown no desire to let him go , and that 's despite the fact that Neil has not been in his first team . |
| 4 | Bach has always been among my major loves . |
| 5 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 6 | His jotting pad was covered with hot-air balloons , intricately patterned and decorated ; part of his mind had obviously been with his private passion . |
| 7 | But what if at the moment of birth the whole of one 's life to come were to flash before one 's eyes and then to be immediately wiped away , forgotten , while we laboriously go through all the pleasures and sorrows , all the hopes and frustrations that make up a life , meeting people and parting from them , listening to them and speaking to them , to go through tasting all we taste in the course of our long lives , seeing all we see , every leaf at every moment and every cloud at every moment , and hearing all we hear , the hooting of every car and the singing of every bird and every performance of the Brandenburg concertos , go through all that , in time , very slowly , though we had already been through it all , every moment of it , leaf , cloud , concerto , in one brief but intense instant , everything perfectly formed but over in less than a second ? |
| 8 | Justicz commented on Oxford 's ‘ very nice ’ rhythm and felt the Dark Blues had been able to capitalise whenever Cambridge had not been at their best . |
| 9 | Wright said : ‘ I recognised that , in the previous two games , I had not been at my best . |
| 10 | Even if Plácido Domingo had not moved Juan Pons , playing the mean and moody Sheriff of Puccini 's La Fanciulla del West , to barely-suppressed tears in the famous Act 3 aria , ‘ Ch'ella mi creda ’ — if , in other words , Domingo had not been at his committed best , which is quite something — the Scala audience would no doubt have roared its approval all the same . |
| 11 | If it had not been for their long , soul-searching conversations about the Koran and the life of the Prophet , he would probably not , now , be sleeping with her . |
| 12 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 13 | They brought with them their families , particularly the young children , and under this stimulus the seaside holiday became something which it had not been in its aristocratic heyday — a family affair . |
| 14 | Mrs Ditchburn had just been to her local shops at Cotteslow to buy her great-grandson a birthday card when she was set upon . |
| 15 | John had always been at his best at Christmas , gay , funny , sweet , considerate . |
| 16 | He had always been at his best when he was pressed hardest . |
| 17 | Taking all these things together , I think they give ground for the suspicion expressed by Mr. Henderson and other Labour ministers that Mr. MacDonald had deliberately planned the scheme of a National government ; which would at the same time enable him to retain the position of Prime Minister and to associate with colleagues with whom he was more in sympathy than he had ever been with his Labour colleagues … |
| 18 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 19 | I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life . |
| 20 | If it had n't been for her fat friend , she would have overslept . |
| 21 | If it had n't been for your shiftless nephew , Suzie would be back in England by now , my mother would n't be having sleepless nights and I could be in London doing the job for which I 'm paid ! ’ |
| 22 | ‘ If it had n't been for your ghastly aunt we 'd have been married by now . ’ |
| 23 | Fire-brigade or not , if it had n't been for your bright idea and splendid work and your friend 's race for help to the farmhouse the whole field would be ablaze , ’ said Farmer Olinton . |
| 24 | If it had n't been for his diligent research and dogged answer seeking , I would n't be leaving for America two hours from now in the hope of a cure . |
| 25 | If it had n't been for his harsh , laboured breathing , Isabel would not have known that he still lived . |
| 26 | Adam would have faced almost certain death if it had n't been for his quick thinking . |
| 27 | Ben had even been at it all through the war . |
| 28 | Arafat 's decision to side with Iraq during the Gulf War had incensed the Saudis , who had previously been among his strongest financial backers . |
| 29 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 30 | She 's only been with me six weeks . |