Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 2 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 3 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 4 | How foolishly happy she had been earlier that evening , and how ridiculous she felt at this moment , all her dreams crushed and shattered around her slowly dragging feet . |
| 5 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 6 | We had been there some time . |
| 7 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |
| 8 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 9 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 10 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 11 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 12 | There had been so much blood , but … |
| 13 | That night by the river there had been so much blood … |
| 14 | There had been so much power in the electricity of that lightning . |
| 15 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 16 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 17 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 18 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 19 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 20 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 21 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 22 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 23 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 24 | And in times when there had been very little money , it had kept them going , Jasper and her , for months . |
| 25 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 26 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 27 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 28 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 29 | There had been very few patients . |
| 30 | From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth there had been relatively little change in the age-distribution of the population . |