Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 2 | The strict controls over our life at school , our terrible school uniform and the climate of East Yorkshire conspired against either of these sexual eventualities , which had apparently been the common run of existence in Trinidad . |
| 3 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 4 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 5 | She had n't been the only one to be quietly expelled from the eminently respectable boarding school after being caught smoking cannabis . |
| 6 | So OK , she had n't been the best dinner companion in the world that evening , but she had n't asked him to take her out , he had asked her . |
| 7 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 8 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 9 | She had always been the great friend of Noreen 's and of Liam too in his young days . |
| 10 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 11 | But in the folklore of Liverpool Police it was the ‘ bucks ’ who had always been the primary object of street powers . |
| 12 | He was reduced to a short old man who had once been the great painter Marius Durance . |
| 13 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 14 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 15 | Where he drove , surrounded by cars and bicycles and mopeds and minibuses , there had once been the strained drone of Dakotas pulling gliders into the air for the flights to the bridges and crossroads behind the D-Day beaches of Normandy , and for the flights to the Dutch town of Arnhem . |
| 16 | They 'd hardly been the first , he reflected . |
| 17 | But perhaps they had n't been the righteous . |
| 18 | Those shoes , they had n't been the running kind . |
| 19 | They had obviously been the Russian barracks , with officers and men quartered there . |
| 20 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 21 | It was useless to start calling her irresponsible brother a few names — he 'd always been the same , and she 'd known that , love him though she did , when they had moved to London . |
| 22 | Charles Marovitz in It had not been the only reviewer from the left dissatisfied with the Royal Shakespeare Company 's US on the Vietnam war . |
| 23 | Shiva had called it that , but in his mouth it had not been the hackneyed expression it would have been if an English person had so referred to it . |
| 24 | It had n't been the best of weekends . |
| 25 | It had n't been the greatest operation anyway , because it seemed that Jenner and Professor Liawski had some big argument around ‘ seventy-nine . ’ |
| 26 | The Soviet Union acted immediately on Aug. 2 to suspend weapons shipments to Iraq , to which it had historically been the principal arms supplier . |
| 27 | The animal had been plunging towards the shelter of a riverside bamboo grove when he fired and it had probably been the best shot of his life . |
| 28 | It had probably been the only one aired and ready for the unexpected guest this morning . |
| 29 | It had long been the traditional burial ground of kings ; all Louis 's royal Capetian ancestors — with the exception of his father Philip — were buried within its confines . |
| 30 | In fact it had always been the last thing on his mind . |