Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike had a dream the other night that she had a , a little boy , but er , the funny thing was it 'd only just been born but it could talk |
| 2 | It was partly the proximity to the fens , for though they 'd long since been drained and farmed , all the fields were bound by ditches and dykes and he felt as if the land was oozing bog water , or sinking imperceptibly into some primeval slime . |
| 3 | Coming from someone who 'd obviously never been in the right frame of mind magnetically to attach anything but his salary to himself — money Anwar always referred to as ‘ unearned income ’ — this seemed a bit rich . |
| 4 | They 'd still not been replaced . |
| 5 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 6 | She 'd very nearly been caught out . |
| 7 | I 'd never even been on a train until I was past thirty and if you recall that was no joy-ride , simply a mercy dash to get Renée out of one of her scrapes . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd never even been to her house . |
| 9 | He went across to it , still thinking that it was n't too late to back out and close the door behind him and pretend that he 'd never even been in here . |
| 10 | But since , technically , she 'd never even been employed in any official capacity , she could hardly have cared less . |
| 11 | I 'd never even been in a car until I was twenty … |
| 12 | She 'd never even been in love , she thought wistfully , was beginning to think herself incapable of the emotion , or that her standards were too high — or impossible . |
| 13 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 14 | Loren was upstairs , engaged in that long getting-ready process that he 'd never quite been able to fathom . |
| 15 | But perhaps she 'd never really been there at all . |
| 16 | She 'd never really been interested in boys , or going out much . |
| 17 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
| 18 | Erm because I 'd never actually been in the flats before . |
| 19 | Momentarily she digested the horrible implication , that by nineteen-eighty the work on Titron had reached a stage where an enlarged adult human foetus had presumably already been tested against many diseases — and was a norm . |
| 20 | Dogged police work by the Lockerbie investigation team , allied with the forensic skill of the Royal Armaments Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead , Kent , established that the bomb had most likely been loaded in a suitcase at Malta before being transferred to PanAm 103 at Frankfurt . |
| 21 | Neither writer gave McQueen the credit of his own history ; neither enquired into , or assessed , the status he might have had before the ‘ 45 Rebellion , in which he had participated , and by which he had most likely been reduced to keeping this crude but hospitable inn . |
| 22 | Women had rarely previously been members of Friendly Societies , the extent of their ill-health had been unknown when the Act was framed , and administrators were unprepared for it . |
| 23 | Whereas nuclear weaponry had effectively only been in the hands of the U.S.A. , the development of such weapons by other nations had been increasing , so at a meeting , in December 1962 , at Nassau , Prime minister Harold Macmillan and President Kennedy , hammered out an agreement whereby Britain abandoned its plans for ‘ Skybolt ’ in return for the U.S.A. ‘ Polaris ’ missile for use by British nuclear submarines . |
| 24 | These had perhaps once been outhouses which had long ago fallen down . |
| 25 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 26 | Dane had stirred something up within her , disturbed deep pools that had perhaps never been touched before , and she had n't the faintest idea how to go about calming those waters again . |
| 27 | In further indications of increasing openness , Tirana radio on Nov. 23 , 1989 , reported the crash of two helicopters the previous day which had killed 23 people ; incidents of this kind had hitherto not been reported in the Albanian media . |
| 28 | This was a departure from tradition , since the illuminated cars had hitherto only been decorative . |
| 29 | It was unclear whether the Ukraine had the power to carry out these resolutions ; the final decisions on such matters had hitherto always been taken in Moscow . |
| 30 | It had all just been rummaging around . |