Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 2 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 3 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 4 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 5 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 6 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 7 | The mast had been up three months and Kaptan still had one week of his vacation left when Osvaldo made his move . |
| 8 | Even his own notorious plant , which had consistently gone downhill for ten years under his active leadership , had been steadily increasing efficiency and output for several weeks without interruption . |
| 9 | The resulting detailed palaeomagnetic record showed that during the past 4 Ma the average duration of ‘ normal ’ fields ( like the present one ) had been about 420 ka and that of ‘ reversed ’ fields a little longer ( about 480 ka ) . |
| 10 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 11 | There were suggestions that Bond Corporation executives had been under regular surveillance and that there had been interference with telephone communications , Mr Lucas said . |
| 12 | He just considering whether to shorten sail when the foresheet , which had been under considerable strain and was rubbing back and forth against the port gunwale , parted . |
| 13 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 14 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 15 | Sarella had been back two days and her feet had scarcely touched the ground . |
| 16 | There were ten birthday cards on the mantelpiece , but they had been there two days and she took them down . |
| 17 | By now we had been there several hours and things were n't looking very optimistic . |