Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have [adv] been " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 2 | She did n't turn up , so of course I then telephoned her office and found she had n't been there that week . |
| 3 | Walked through there and got to the simulator took our jackets off , pretended we 'd already been in walked straight past and we were right on site ! |
| 4 | They found it had not been modified in any way and could not operate on the 27–28 MHz frequency ( the FM Citizens ' Band ) . |
| 5 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 6 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 7 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 8 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 9 | But still her mind looked back , of its own accord , to Lajos , the harpies of the women 's magazine , Algox , and it seemed she had always been got at , and ‘ they ’ were still getting at her . |
| 10 | As time went by , it seemed there had always been a war , and always would be . |
| 11 | They 'd arranged to meet for dinner , but it seemed he had n't been able to wait . |
| 12 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 13 | The accident that happened there has now been cleared off the carriageway . |
| 14 | Apart from making a number of impressive black and white studies of the rugged terrain , he also photographed local people , always on the look-out for strength and dignity in their faces that showed they had not been eroded by the harsh circumstances in which they lived . |
| 15 | The directors , who claimed they had not been consulted properly about the scheme , agreed to continue to run their buses to the estate for a trial period when the humps are introduced . |
| 16 | Matthew was sent off to the yard , but Riddle was n't there and Matthew reckoned he had n't been there . ’ |
| 17 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 18 | He apologized when he was close enough , because he guessed he had n't been able to hear Lavinia calling to him above the noise of the Suffolk Punch . |
| 19 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 20 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 21 | The Americans were 11 under par when it finished they had also been six under in the Foursomes when they beat Gordon Brand and Sam Torrance . |
| 22 | At which poor Jack Rogers — a former bricklayer and union leader , and the member of the executive taking the can back as he replied to the debate — innocently protested they had n't been drunk , they had n't even had a cup of tea . |
| 23 | ‘ This morning you discovered they had n't been with Peter Leary as they 'd told us . |
| 24 | I heard they 'd all been killed . |
| 25 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 26 | Magistrates heard he had already been banned for life from keeping animals when an RSPCA inspection revealed he still had more . |
| 27 | When she heard that a particular decision had not yet been implemented she telexed Moira , complaining : ‘ BA would be very annoyed if he heard it had not been done . ’ |
| 28 | She presumed there had not been enough news in the letter to compensate for its late arrival . |
| 29 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 30 | Soon he was exploring parts he felt no-one had ever been in before . |