Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd only been there twelve months . |
| 2 | I 'd only been back ten minutes when we started arguing again . |
| 3 | And I bloody well know that when we you know , first moved there and we 're in the caravan she had n't asked him and they 'd already been there eighteen months ! |
| 4 | and they 'd both been there thirty years since they 've left school |
| 5 | Competing in the free market of air fares had catapulted Branson into the rarefied area of government policy and international relations , and helped to define what had hitherto been purely instinctive beliefs in a more rigid ideological context . |
| 6 | He and Kelly had only been together five minutes but the photographs brought back the full nightmarish shame of it all . |
| 7 | But she had only been there four months when she fell prey to supervisor Brian McConville who subjected her to a harrowing sexual harassment ordeal . |
| 8 | Duncan had already been there twelve hours , just due for a watch-change , when the IRA gang arrived . |
| 9 | The Court of first instance decided that there had not been unfairly prejudicial conduct . |
| 10 | Something which had not been there three years ago now existed . |
| 11 | Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team . |
| 12 | Up to the start of the 1970s , there had really been only two approaches : Idealism and Realism . |
| 13 | So he had n't been here this morning while she was forcing her way through the woods ? |
| 14 | No , I do n't think that had a great deal to do with it , erm it was question that when the town was designed the , there had n't been this sudden burst in living standards . |
| 15 | She said it looked as though Francis had n't been home all night and she was worried . ’ |
| 16 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 17 | He had n't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café . |
| 18 | She felt a moment 's self-consciousness and doubt , because she knew she had changed , too ; that there were lines around the emerald eyes that had n't been there last time he saw her . |
| 19 | I had n't been there ten minutes when the bailiff came , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Brigitte 's new husband Bernard d'Ormale , who was at her side in the south of France hospital , revealed Bardot had recently been under severe stress . |
| 21 | Lots of people from the restaurants park down here in the evening , but I only just realized , talking to my wife , that it had actually been there all day as well . |
| 22 | The earthquake , of course , was an expensive nuisance , but earthquakes had never been particularly rare events in Italy , so little significance was attached to it . |
| 23 | The initial mass audience had obviously loved short films and especially comedies but there had never been that much attention given to content as novelty value guaranteed that every film would made money . |
| 24 | There had never been too much money , but never less than enough . |