Example sentences of "[vb past] been [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 2 | Since 1954 he had been Second Master , filling this difficult position with meticulous efficiency and good humour , qualities which also marked his teaching . |
| 3 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 4 | She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener . |
| 5 | The lie to Will had been second nature . |
| 6 | Although we did not foresee any difficulties , we were astonished to hear that the Secretary of the Cabinet , Sir Robert Armstrong , had asked for the programme on the Suez operation of 1956 , in which Mountbatten had been First Sea Lord , to be deferred ‘ possibly for some months ’ . |
| 7 | Kirakosyan , 36 , a historian , had been First Deputy Foreign Minister since December 1991 . |
| 8 | Josh Gifford , for whom he had been first jockey before his illness and who had assured him that his position as stable jockey would be waiting for him as soon as he had recovered . |
| 9 | Charles Eyre was educated at Ushaw College in Durham , of which his great-uncle , Thomas Eyre [ q.v. ] , had been first president . |
| 10 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 11 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 12 | That had been last night . |
| 13 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 14 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 15 | Mrs Frizzell stopped half-way into a bone-coloured skirt — bone had been last year 's fashionable colour , according to the Tollemarche Advent . |
| 16 | He had been last year 's judge and immediately he said he 'd come to the prize presentation on the evening of the 19th and judge the judge 's choice . |
| 17 | But that had been last month . |
| 18 | How different things had been last spring , for all their difficulties . |
| 19 | Samuel Barber 's Adagio for Strings was well enough played but lacked the last ounce of passion , and suffered badly from the aurally obtrusive air conditioning system , Randall Thompson 's Alleluya showed that the Festival Chorus on this occasion were equally as adept at unaccompanied singing as their counterparts had been last week . |
| 20 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |