Example sentences of "there [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 31 | Keir enquired whether there 'd been any other media interest in MVTR . |
| 32 | There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Until I left London there 'd been no signal from Clarion Call for four days . ’ |
| 34 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 35 | There 'd been something in the local papers about me and my work , and these girls , aged about eight to eleven years old , sent me a book of poems they 'd written , printed and sold to raise money . |
| 36 | The reason the return of Madness got the fans out and raised critical hackles was because there 'd been no outfit to take their place in the intervening years . |
| 37 | More recently , there 'd been further reappraisal of America 's bluesmeisters and U2 hauled in BB King to jointly provide a Top Ten single in ‘ When Love Comes To Town ’ , while Gary Moore charted with the aid of Albert King . |
| 38 | There 'd been the Scofield incident you see . |
| 39 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 40 | It started round about eighteen twenty one although actually there there 'd been erm er simmering discontent in the amongst the Christians in the Balkan area for some time . |
| 41 | There would have been a terrific scandal if there 'd been anyone present to have a scandal around . |
| 42 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 43 | so in all purp in , in always , the fact that you 'd come into this house made one realize that there 'd been a distinct change in one 's circumstances . |
| 44 | For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break . |
| 45 | He thought it was part of the nightmare at first , though up to then there 'd been nothing much to scream about . |
| 46 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
| 47 | This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it . |
| 48 | ‘ There 'd been — other people . |
| 49 | There 'd been no warning . |
| 50 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 51 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 52 | Now if there 'd been I do n't know the length of this or something . |
| 53 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 54 | One day in February the boiler broke down ; there 'd been no heat or hot water all day . |
| 55 | There 'd been Stephen . |
| 56 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 57 | There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening . |
| 58 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 59 | ‘ That 'll be nice , ’ Martha replied , as if there 'd been no earlier ruction . |
| 60 | There 'd been a whole day 's racing at Goodwood , two afternoons at Wimbledon for the semi-finals and finals , the Eton and Harrow cricket match , a day at Henley and invitations to lunch and dinner parties , the theatre , the opera and then on to one of the nightclubs . |