Example sentences of "[vb past] been [art] [n mass] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there had been no people around her , Tess would not have made herself so unhappy . |
| 2 | This he threw with a flicking movement on to a pile of scrap iron before making his way towards them , kicking out of his path and on to yet another pile the remnants of what had been a pair of trousers . |
| 3 | My going-away present to them had been a pair of inflatable yellow wheel clamps which I 'd attached front and aft to their VW Golf . |
| 4 | It was only at this late stage that she began to think about them ; they had been a means to an end , Frederica Potter 's removal from Blesford and Yorkshire . |
| 5 | The last six years of his life — since Judith , in fact — had been a series of duplicities . |
| 6 | Not only was the demand not to materialize but the revolution in distribution costs introduced by containerization , changes in marine technology and handling methods at docks opened up the world from what had been a series of regional markets to a single one . |
| 7 | There had been a series of rumours about accidents : pods which malfunctioned on impact , leaving their passengers trapped and helpless ; pods which misinterpreted conditions of temperature and air pressure , releasing their human cargo while they were still several kilometres above ground . |
| 8 | Evidently there had been a series of mass extinctions followed each time by the appearance of an entirely new set of species that formed the population of the next stable period . |
| 9 | The Doctor explained that in the late nineteenth century there had been a series of unsolved murders committed in the East End of London . |
| 10 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 11 | Since 1492 , when they were evicted from Spain , Tangier Jews had been a people without a country , owing allegiance to no one but the Jewish nation . |
| 12 | Her name was Avavnuk ; she had been an Eskimo in her life . |
| 13 | Following its use as a cotton warehouse , the building had been the headquarters of a mail-order company and ended its commercial career accommodating the offices of a number of small businesses . |
| 14 | Next is the Saw and Bone Mill , which had been the headquarters of the Northwick estate , and was used mainly for the grinding of bones to produce fertilizer . |
| 15 | If she had been the offspring of drunken parents in Scotland Road , or born with a hair-lip like Ma Tang 's daughter , there might be some excuse for feeling as she did . |
| 16 | He is revered locally , and especially by Mrs Joe , as a man of great sagacity and judiciousness but is , in fact , a pompous , self-satisfied fool , who bullies Pip as a child but fawns upon him when he becomes a young man of fortune , and postures as the ‘ founder of his fortunes ’ since he had been the means of introducing Pip to Miss Havisham 's . |
| 17 | On our way we called on the established church minister , who had been the means of our coming to the Island , and with whom we had special business , and were immensely tickled to find that he had actually fled ! |
| 18 | Although we did not attend it , we had visited St Stephen 's , Gloucester Road , together , no doubt out of forgivable curiosity , though Eliot might not have thought excusable any curiosity he had been the means of exciting in that sphere . |