Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’ |
| 2 | Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . ) |
| 3 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 4 | Mr Bleasdale said the pool was chosen because it had ‘ every facility known to man ’ and added the staff had all been very helpful as had the mothers and toddlers from the Colchester area employed as extras . |
| 5 | Twenty-eight days later they were back — they had only been as far as Mugu . |
| 6 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 7 | His life had not been particularly eventful or distinguished . |
| 8 | Her life had not been particularly adventurous and at school , where her friend Rosie Fortinbras courted adventure , she had been regarded as a dull girl and a plodding worker . |
| 9 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 10 | The judge , having heard evidence , concluded that because of her condition and the effect of the narcotic medication she had not been fully rational when she signed the refusal form . |
| 11 | It had not been fully dark when she had been flying . |
| 12 | And she had not been half asleep and dreaming this time . |
| 13 | The same proportion thought that the feedback had not been very useful or of no use at all . |
| 14 | He was rather liking this bit of a jaunt , although he had not been very enthusiastic when Goibniu had ordered him to set out . |
| 15 | Lilly had not been more beautiful than the other women who sought him , just more clever . |
| 16 | Black holes would have been formed only if the early universe had not been perfectly smooth and uniform , because only a small region that was denser than average could be compressed in this way to form a black hole . |
| 17 | The man had not been deliberately cruel or corrupt , like so many non-medical people who licensed their houses for this purpose , but he had stuck to the principle that the violent needed continual restraint , and his daughter still feared more progressive methods . |
| 18 | ‘ I know that if Wyn had not been as strong as she has , then I would not be here today . ’ |
| 19 | The superintendent was looking relieved that the incident had not been as bad as it might have been . |
| 20 | Mr Wilkinsion said he was pleasantly surprised that the loss of traffic had not been as bad as feared . |
| 21 | But Travis was shaking his head , and insisting that he had not been as enthusiastic as he might have been on Saturday . |
| 22 | She enjoyed nearly everything , even widow 's weeds perhaps most of all widow 's weeds , as her married life had not been as exciting as she might have wished , and besides , they were so graceful and pretty . |
| 23 | Swod pursed his lips with faint irascibility : his ‘ bon mot ’ about Mills had not been as conclusive as he hoped . |
| 24 | Sara wished she had not been so petty when Fairfax had called , and had let him go on thinking it was Matthew 's old family house . |
| 25 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 26 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 27 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 28 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 29 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 30 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |