Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This alone had been enough to bring frowns to Felipe 's dark face , but as they were leaving Ana 's tears had suddenly been too much for Mitch to bear . |
| 2 | There always had been that part of him , rarely seen , that she did n't understand . |
| 3 | There always had been these moments between them when she had to give way , against reason , against sense : he simply had to win . |
| 4 | Cotterell 's experience so far had been that RCO had virtually pre-written most of Carson 's material for him . |
| 5 | When ( Labour ) tries to define a programme capable of rallying the masses at the next general election , it falls back , not on a specifically socialist programme , but on the old programme that half a century ago had been that of bourgeois liberalism in England . |
| 6 | One of the difficulties with interpreting Small World visually had been that , like many of his texts , it features extended literary pastiche . |
| 7 | Dinner consisted of pea soup , which Millie found quite nice — she could taste there had been some kind of pork boiled in the liquid — followed by a meat pudding . |
| 8 | In years gone by there had been some clever dogs in Baldersdale . |
| 9 | Work on the Glenburrell Bridge had been slower than hoped for as there had been some discussion with the County Council as to ownership . |
| 10 | There never had been such a moment , for critics ; there has never been such a moment since . |
| 11 | This was quite untenable to Barratt and Taylor and in a letter Taylor complained that there never had been such a requirement in any mining lease and any experienced miner would reject it as attempting to enforce an impossibility . |