Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [adv] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 2 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 3 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 4 | Dancing had never been like this . |
| 5 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 6 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 7 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |
| 8 | He told Mrs Edwards her son had given his life in the service of humanity and his sacrifice had not been in vain . |
| 9 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 10 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 11 | His slumber had not been at all restful . |
| 12 | The implication was that the slaughter had all been in vain . |
| 13 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 14 | Alice hoped it was not on account of Jasper though , clearly , to make that emotional speech had not been to clever . |