Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He swung it to the extra-cover boundary and Sabina Park , where everyone had been generous in Test defeat , could not have celebrated more had the World Cup been won . |
| 2 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 3 | George joined Historic Scotland in 1992 from the Scottish Office 's Graphics Group , where he had been involved in the production of models and display materials since 1968 . |
| 4 | Now , nobody would know for certain how he had died , or what had been wrong with him , her husband . |
| 5 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 6 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 7 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 8 | I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out . |
| 9 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 10 | So I said that I had been lucky in a draw for leave , and that now Montague was dead I was to rejoin my original battalion . |
| 11 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 12 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 14 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 15 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |
| 16 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 17 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 18 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 19 | Rourke had made no move to contact her after she had left the office yesterday morning , and that had to mean that she had been right in her assumptions . |
| 20 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 21 | It was in this way that my friend confided in me when she dreamed , with great clarity , that she had been present at her own funeral gathering . |
| 22 | Davies added that she had been present at a phone conversation in December when Doyle had assured one of the players that all $300,000 of the prizemoney was ‘ in the bank . ’ |
| 23 | Nurse Valerie Roper said she had spoken to Allitt after the first two or three arrests at Grantham and Kesteven Hospital and mentioned that she had been present on each occasion . |
| 24 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 25 | Congratulations to Sharon Doolan , Reprographics Unit , who learned recently that she had been successful in gaining two further Scotvec modules in photography . |
| 26 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 27 | ‘ And the allegation that she had been disloyal to anyone was very firmly refuted . ’ |
| 28 | She admitted that she had been thrilled at the idea of being alone with him , but all he was going to do was be stiffly silent . |
| 29 | ‘ We 'll need wood for a fire , ’ returned Isabel with aplomb , not about to admit that she had been worried about him . |
| 30 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |