Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 2 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 3 | This room had been cleared of all but two of the great packages . |
| 4 | Nearly one-third of domestic consumers in 1948 were on very high flat-rate tariffs designed for small users , but these were gradually induced by Area Boards to shift to ‘ two-part ’ or ‘ block ’ tariffs which had been adopted by most of the larger , progressive undertakings before nationalisation . |
| 5 | In the space of 15 years , species had been lost from each of six sites monitored off the Florida Keys ; at all but one of the sites , the total amount of coral present had shrunk . |
| 6 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 7 | A further solicitor 's letter informed Brenda that the Sharmas believed Robbie to be their dog ( they claimed his fur had been dyed ! ) , and that their bitch had been exchanged with another before the inspection . |
| 8 | In effect the competitive labour supply function had been supplanted over most of its range by what may be called the ‘ trades union labour supply function ’ , illustrated by the bold lines in Figure 5.1 . |
| 9 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 10 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 11 | The growth of liberal assumptions of free speech and tolerance meant that the anticlerical challenge came just when religion had been deprived of much of its legal protection . |
| 12 | Grown-ups have things to do , you know , an' they ca n't always explain them … well — ' She put her arm around the narrow shoulders and pulled the child into her side , and when again the arm came around her waist and the head was pressed between her breasts there arose in her that pain that was both an ache and a pleasure : a pleasure that had no future that she could see ; a pleasure that she had been deprived of all during her womanhood . |
| 13 | With debates about feminism and culture it had been seen by many as the key to understanding our current dilemmas . |
| 14 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 15 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 16 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 17 | The thought that it had been inside his mouth , touching his tongue and gums and those rather small but perfect teeth , that it had been drenched in some of his most intimate fluids gave me an erotic thrill . |
| 18 | Laub ; they believed that six had been hit in all from an estimated fifteen . |
| 19 | It is claimed that no society can maintain high fertility in the face of two generations of mass education , and that had been achieved in much of Western Europe by the end of the nineteenth century ( Caldwell 1982 ) . |
| 20 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 21 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 22 | Suicide in more conventional forms shows up prominently in the later records of the Kindertransporte , when the work of the RCM had been merged with that of the Central British Fund ( CB F ) . |
| 23 | Although we had been in the land of constant daylight for several days , the sun had been hidden for much of the time by high cloud . |
| 24 | Belorussian industrial capacity had been split in half by the World War and its consequences . |
| 25 | Unemployment rose from a level of about 10% ( which had been maintained throughout most of the '20s ) to a high of 23% in 1932 . |
| 26 | He said that no decisions had been reached on any of the ‘ scare stories ’ which had appeared in the Press . |
| 27 | This not only showed how out of touch with the English political scene Tyndale was , but illustrated the honesty or obstinacy which made him feel that he had to declare his opposition to the divorce , although it had been supported by most of the other Reformers . |
| 28 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 29 | There was a final , violent crash of thunder , and in the bright light they saw that the tree had been torn in half by the lightning . |
| 30 | Most of that land had been allocated to those with forest grazing rights , whose method of running stock would be affected by the enclosures . |