Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 31 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 32 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
| 33 | We are totally incompatible , yet after ten minutes in the same room as him I felt as though I had been plugged into the mains . |
| 34 | Emily felt as though she had been slapped in the face . |
| 35 | His blue-grey eyes were as cold as a Siberian winter , and Polly felt as though she had been impaled by twin icicles . |
| 36 | When he at last looked away from her , she felt as though she had been seared to the soul by the scathing dismissal in his eyes . |
| 37 | She felt as though she had been running forever . |
| 38 | Isabel watched him vanish beneath the barbican and felt as though she had been abandoned to face the enemy without weapons or protection . |
| 39 | Their glances met , and for a moment Sara felt as though she had been swung out into space . |
| 40 | Linda Johnson felt as though she 'd been doing nothing but prepare for Christmas for months and was exhausted before it all began . |
| 41 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 42 | After spending the better part of the morning crouched down painting skirting-boards , she felt as though she 'd been put through a mangle . |
| 43 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
| 44 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 45 | Both sexes were clad in essentially masculine garments which looked as though they had been in the family for generations : waxed jackets , sensible shoes , chunky pullovers , indestructible tweeds and cords . |
| 46 | The iron grey , Tero , got by because her coat was almost black , but Maldita was so dazzlingly white , except for a sprinkling of rust-brown freckles on her belly , that she looked as though she 'd been through the car wash . |
| 47 | She looked as though she 'd been crying , and I felt sorry — ’ |
| 48 | Over in the corner behind a gigantic desk sat this old bird who looked as though she had been there since Marie Stopes was pre-pubescent . |
| 49 | The girl , who looked as though she had been made in heaven out of peaches and cream , was wearing a few pieces of string arranged as a bikini , high heels , the goose-pimples , and nothing else . |
| 50 | A little embarrassed because it looked as though she had been prying , Meredith murmured , ‘ I 'm not much of a cook . ’ |
| 51 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 52 | As they wept around his coffin , one relative who said she had dressed the body , said : ‘ It looked as though he had been tortured . ’ |
| 53 | Dressed in a white shirt and trousers , and with his white hair and a face apparently never submitted to the sunshine , he looked as though he had been rolled in flour preparatory to cooking . |
| 54 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 55 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 56 | And the hair that looked as though it had been dramatically carved out of something shiny rather than been grown in the normal way . |
| 57 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 58 | His eyes were like black pools of water , his hair a hoary white , prickly and short , with a parting down the middle which looked as though it had been cut by a Stanley knife . |
| 59 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 60 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |