Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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1 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
2 | For he said — Hugh Beringar said — that Brother Cadfael understands wounds , having been many years a man-at-arms . ’ |
3 | The king had been many years a widower . |
4 | When a younger and less sophisticated Hank had come quietly through the back gate in search of the garage , the couple had been busy planting a lilac tree . |
5 | PUPILS at Ayresome junior school , Middlesbrough , have been busy painting a mural which was declared officially open yesterday . |
6 | And and come in on the , he came on the Tuesday and he 's been three days a couple of weeks so |