Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 2 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 3 | She 'd obviously been confused and had things on her mind . |
| 4 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |
| 5 | and I 'd always been sorry that my dad told us , you know . |
| 6 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 7 | As Prime Minister he had mostly been popular and happy , although bearing heavily even the limited press of public work which his economy of effort prescribed . |
| 8 | The implication of all this is that such places had perhaps been important as estates or administrative centres as well as having marketing functions long before late Saxon times and thus could be developed into true towns fairly easily . |
| 9 | He wanted a reserved figure because previous applicants had all been loud and pushy . |
| 10 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 11 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 12 | He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain . |
| 13 | Hitherto there had only been four or five types available in England . |
| 14 | It is true that this ‘ agreement ’ , or settlement as I would prefer to call it , had only been viable when lesbians and gays tolerated their own oppression , tolerated homophobic behaviour , tolerated heterosexist indoctrination , tolerated liberal tolerance . |
| 15 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 16 | Similar powers in the Housing Act of 1890 had only been permissive and so far only a few councils ( notably London ) had been active house builders ; indeed some , including Birmingham , had regarded the proposition as a matter of last resort . |
| 17 | Fairley had long been violent and sexually aggressive . |
| 18 | This silence had long been intolerable when Jim broke it , saying to Jake Endo , ‘ Uh , how did ‘ Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree , Which Stands Near the Lake of Easthwaite , on a Desolate Part of the Shore , Commanding a Beautiful Prospect ’ do ? ’ |
| 19 | Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | ‘ I think I had already been married and divorced at Kate 's age . |
| 22 | Now I began to wonder if my friends had not been right when they said I would never see him again . |
| 23 | But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air . |
| 24 | She had not been pleased when it turned out the credit chip he needed to pay her fine was with the rest of his stuff on Plenty . |
| 25 | Her behaviour had not been normal nor good , but it was not Finn she had railed at on the public highway . |
| 26 | For all her privilege and wealth , life had not been easy and the experiences of childhood had left an indelible mark . |
| 27 | Turning the dogmas of the Sandys Reformation into practicable military policies had not been easy when faced with the real world beyond the confines of Whitehall and Westminster . |
| 28 | Apart from extra weight , the years had not been unkind although she would n't get away with lying about her dress size for too much longer . |
| 29 | First , out of all the responses made , only two participants stated that their attendance on the course had not been worthwhile and none said that the course should be discontinued . |
| 30 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |