Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 2 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 3 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 4 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 5 | It was obvious that they had been outside all the time , probably in a van . |
| 6 | But then again , maybe Jos had been nearby all the while ? |
| 7 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 8 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 9 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 10 | But the question had been there all the time . |
| 11 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 12 | She was certain MacQuillan had not gone to the bar because she had been there all the time until then . |
| 13 | Because the signs had been there all the time if she 'd ever bothered to look further than his surface charm . |
| 14 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |