Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 2 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 3 | It 's same as , what ow she 's gone into hospital with her , you know , and I 'd actually been that day , you know what I mean , I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not cross , 'cos I do n't mind . |
| 4 | If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect . |
| 5 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |
| 6 | There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties . |
| 7 | In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets . |
| 8 | It appeared that although Taigh na Tuir had not been formally put on the market , there had already been some interest shown . |
| 9 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 10 | There had always been that choice , and it was as difficult to take , and as easy to reject , in the twentieth century as it had been in any other . |
| 11 | Her concern , until then , had always been that Time ( or the house ) would prevent him from reaching her , stop them from being able to meet , remove the opportunity , once and for all , for her to feel again as she had done last night , leaving her for ever empty and unsatisfied . |
| 12 | There had always been such spirit in her . |
| 13 | If there had ever been any chance that the Whigs might lose the support of the great mass of the population , the poor , the unpropertied , the emergent working class , that possibility had now gone . |
| 14 | ‘ There she is ! ’ cried her father , as if there had ever been any doubt about her arrival . |
| 15 | The charge was such an obvious frame-up that he had to ask himself if there had ever been any intention to try him on it . |
| 16 | He might add that , if there had ever been any prospect that the class war would provide its movement , that prospect had patently disappeared except , ironically , in those eastern European countries bound to submit to Russian supervision . |
| 17 | In Picasso 's Horta work there had still been some reference to the earlier , simpler and more rational forms derived from tribal art , but in the paintings done on his return to Paris this aspect is completely abandoned , and in the figure work , the approach becomes once again less rational and more empirical . |
| 18 | The officer led him into what had once been some kind of common room . |
| 19 | A man with unfashionably long hair — it had probably been that way since his own undergraduate days , Loretta guessed — was stabbing the air with his fork . |
| 20 | I think the bottom line of this issue , frankly , is that the U S er attorney the governmental er investigating authorities in this matter have had this information at their disposal for several years now , had there been any question of G Tec 's behaviour er we would certainly be the subject of something that we are not right now , and that the bottom line is we have been assured from the outset that G Tec has not been a subject of this investigation , that G Tec 's behaviour has been above reproach , and as far as his comments go we we do n't really know what context to put them in . |
| 21 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 22 | There had however been some resistance to what was seen as Russification since at least the 1960s , and in the 1980s the development of nuclear power was a new and very potent source of public disenchantment . |
| 23 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 24 | He had never been this way before . |
| 25 | There had never been enough money to dress the child properly and even if there had been they did n't have the style or the know-how . |
| 26 | There had never been any doubt in her mind that she would look after her parents in their old age : they had given up a lot for her , she said , and that was how she could repay them . |
| 27 | There had never been any doubt between them that the University of Glasgow would accept Paul , and this happened in time for him to make his arrangements ; but meanwhile there was something else . |
| 28 | There had never been any doubt in my own mind . |
| 29 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 30 | There had never been any warmth between the women , but they had learnt to respect each other , and Sarah had become accomplished at running the house . |