Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [noun prp] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously Devlin Parnham had been prepared to agree to any sort of conditions to get the count to accept this mission . |
| 2 | ( Apparently Mr Hebecker had been contacted by the consignor 's lawyers as early as July 1991 . ) |
| 3 | Apparently Mr. Dolman had been working at The Albion Hotel , fell from a very tall ladder and was killed . |
| 4 | Perhaps Mrs Nicholson had been wise to leave . |
| 5 | So Kitty Craven had been welcomed to Lady Mead , and the Dowager died happy in the knowledge that her daughter-in-law of six months was five months pregnant . |
| 6 | Perhaps Bad Schwarzendorn had been in Allied hands by then . |
| 7 | Edward could see that not only Desmond Morton had been drinking . |
| 8 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 9 | Meanwhile sister-in-law Kim had been working hard too and in 12 months she lost 5st ( 32kg ) , plus 12½ins ( 32cm ) from her bust , 11 ins ( 28 cm ) from her waist , 14ins ( 36cm ) from her hips and 10½ins ( 26cm ) from each thigh ! |
| 10 | Presumably Mr Malik had been giving her tutorials . |
| 11 | Third , it defined the immediate tasks of the Iraqi people once Saddam Hussein had been overthrown , including the formation of a provisional coalition government from among the opposition forces , which would find a " just solution " to the Kurdish question and guarantee the rights of nationalist minorities such as the Turkomen and the Assyrians . |
| 12 | I talked to Whittaker almost a year to the day after Nelson Mandela had been released from his Cape prison . |
| 13 | Minnie Robinson still sent the occasional line but now Wimpole Street had been sold and she no longer had the doings of all the Barretts to catalogue her letters were empty things and difficult to respond to . |
| 14 | But now Mr Wolski had been asked to see her , and it was because the Curator , in his kind but mistaken way , thought he might like to take leave of the old eagle . |
| 15 | Here Tupac Amaru had been beheaded and his spiritual successor , the self-styled José Gabriel Tupac Amaru the Second , renegade leader of an attempt to restore the pride of the Incas , was himself executed in 1781 . |
| 16 | Luckily Tim Dunton had been very understanding , telling her not to worry and to take as long as she needed to sort matters out . |
| 17 | It was , said the paper , a ‘ found object ’ , but by then David Robins had been in touch with the group , and was to share a house with one of their then leading London lights , Chris Grey . |
| 18 | Since then Mr Crangle had been working in secret on another expedition . |
| 19 | Earlier Costa Alegre had been elected as leader of the ruling Party of Democratic Convergence ( PCD ) , replacing Daniel Lima dos Santos Daio who had been dismissed as Prime Minister in April [ see p. 38854 ] . |
| 20 | She had often heard people say how Martha Gristy had been the beauty of Polruan , and she had taken pride in the fact that she was inheriting those looks . |
| 21 | Earlier Lord Aldington had been asked by his counsel , Charles Gray QC , about his war exploits as Brigadier Toby Lowe . |
| 22 | ‘ I read somewhere of how Steve McQueen had been on drugs the whole time we were shooting Bullitt . |
| 23 | The case , which was heard in June 1968 , was n't helped by the fact that two months earlier Lady Althorp had been named as the ‘ other woman ’ in the Shand Kydds ' divorce while most galling of all , her own mother , Ruth , Lady Fermoy sided against her . |
| 24 | I saw Joe , of course , and remember laughing at his description of how Morgan Forster had been interviewed by Alfred C. Kinsey for his researches into Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male . |
| 25 | He already had a vague idea of how Dame Frances had been killed and , sniffing carefully at it , caught the foulsome stench of burnt animal fat . |
| 26 | Daniel asked , for politeness really , why Van Gogh had been mad , was it just that he was driven ? |
| 27 | Oscar , I tried again , after engaging in a critique of American culture in speech after speech , will you fail to visit the spot where Walt Whitman had been known to read Homer after Shakespeare to the waves ? |
| 28 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 29 | The oval area from where Simon Cormack had been standing when he died to the point where he stopped rolling , at the heart of the larger circle , was treated with especial care . |
| 30 | During 1990 there were signs that a power struggle was under way in Phnom Penh , the first indications of any discord within the leadership since 1981 when Pen Sovan had been removed as party chief and Premier . |