Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 2 | In the daylight Julie could see the holes in the road which , the previous night , she 'd only been able to feel . |
| 3 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 4 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 5 | SHe 'd always been able to disassociate ‘ work ’ from pleasure , clients from lovers , but had been worried that the experience of Jahsaxa 's friends mauling hir might have intruded into this objectivity . |
| 6 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 7 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 8 | Much of it was way beyond anything he 'd ever been able to dream about . |
| 9 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 10 | We had a really marvellous holiday in October — three whole weeks , much longer than we 'd ever been able to have while Michael was working . |
| 11 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 12 | But if you 'd also been able to identify me then they would certainly have initiated an investigation . |
| 13 | And , since I 'd often been obliged to meet his other women during the course of his business , I maliciously decided that he would have to encounter my bit on the side , day in and day out . |
| 14 | It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time . |
| 15 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 16 | She 'd never been able to lie to Candy — the other woman knew her too well , could see through her straight away . |
| 17 | Heaven knew , with an entire house to decorate , there was n't much time for sun-worshipping , but she 'd never been able to resist the lure of the warmth for long . |
| 18 | Damn it , he had n't meant to betray that he 'd never been able to forget that afternoon , and the sweet innocence that had touched something very deep within him . |
| 19 | She could remember the bra , it had been rather a good black lace wired Kayser Bondor , of a line that appeared to have been discontinued , as she 'd never been able to find another . |
| 20 | During the war years , the Russian artist had rarely been able to sell his work and he took to following Zborowski round like a shadow , hanging about outside the Rotonde . |
| 21 | Jacob , sharing in her delight , thought that he had perhaps been wrong to worry . |
| 22 | The Westernizers and Slavophiles who had hitherto been able to voice their opinions only with extreme caution embarked upon a deliberate policy of circulating handwritten memoranda . |
| 23 | A police report submitted to a congressional commission the same month stated that García Meza , ignoring a Supreme Court restriction on his movements , had hitherto been able to move freely around the country under military protection . |
| 24 | In September 1989 , it was reported that the Home Secretary had begun a series of private discussions with public officials including the Lord Chancellor , the Lord Chief Justice ( who had hitherto been reluctant to participate in such discussions lest they were seen as prejudicing judicial independence ) and the senior Lord Justice of Appeal . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , in accordance with the regulations of the shipping company , they had all been obliged to buy return tickets . |
| 26 | If it had only been possible to hold the conference without him ! |
| 27 | For instance , the peasants of the Maramureş to whom Ceauşescu had appealed to preserve their ancient ways had only been able to do so until then because their poor hill-side farms had not yet been collectivized . |
| 28 | From the 1650s onwards , judges had ordered convicts to be transported , but they had only been able to do this by passing a death sentence and then getting it commuted . |
| 29 | In Lewisham an attempt at large scale multi-disciplinary intervention to rehabilitate residents of such a hostel had only been able to move on a fifth of their treatment group after a year ( Timms , 1990 ) . |
| 30 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |