Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [noun] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been 14 years since we had an expedition book from him . |
| 2 | She fully expected him to ignore her sarcastic question , or , in his delightfully blunt fashion , tell her he was out for a walk , not an idle chinwag , when , to cause her to falter in her stride , ‘ How about — where you 'd been last Thursday while I waited outside your flat for you to come home ? ’ |
| 3 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ It would n't have been much use if she had . |
| 5 | He thought of sitting down to wait for a break in the storm but that could have been all night so he struggled on downhill , angling a little to the left , until he met the treeline at the bottom of the meadow . |
| 6 | We must have been closer friends than I recall , for as I go through my library 40 years later , I find quite a number of splendid books inscribed ‘ in friendship ’ from Andrew in his scrawling hand , including Henrik van Loon 's ‘ Book of Lives ’ , ‘ One Men 's Meat ’ by E.B. White , ‘ Women in Love ’ by D.H . |
| 7 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 8 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 9 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 10 | Had we relied on public sector finance , it would have been another century before we had such an opportunity for British industry , with all the infrastructure back-up that will flow from it . |
| 11 | George Lodge and Gilbert Blaine must have been old acquaintances for they were hawking together in Caithness in 1913 . |
| 12 | At 3:1 United were cruising again and the Manor Ground fans must have been thinking what could have been this season if there had been more games like this . |
| 13 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 14 | It has survived so long because abolishing it would have been more trouble than it was worth , but that does not make it any better in itself . |
| 15 | You 'd be stupid to go across the stepping stones if you did n't have the power to jump from one to the other , pretty big , but the , so are the distances between them and at that time of the year the river was pretty high too and r rather boisterous , so it would n't be very pleasant if you had fallen in , but you 've got to have that but you 've also got to have stamina as you said , but it would n't have been any fun if you 'd got halfway across and your stamina had run out , then fire brigade called out , the fire brigade or something . |
| 16 | On the other hand , if he had n't been so keen on interfering there would not have been any tension because she would not have been here or even in France at all . |
| 17 | She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them . |
| 18 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 19 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 20 | It had been eleven months since they had parted . |
| 21 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 22 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 23 | I cried in surprise , for it had been four years since he disappeared . |
| 24 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |
| 25 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 26 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 27 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 28 | most of us had eaten our lunch by then on the coach because we were so hungry , after all it had been seven hours since we had last eaten . |
| 29 | It had been three days since she 'd seen Luke , three days that she 'd spent trying to get him out of her system , but she could n't deny the sudden rush of emotion at the thought of seeing him again . |
| 30 | It had been three weeks since they had last met . |