Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yet , all in all , farming and the farm remained visibly what they had always been in most parts of the world : more prosperous in the developed areas , and hence investing more heavily in improvements , buildings , etc. , more businesslike in many places , but not transformed out of recognition . |
| 32 | During the Reagan presidency , the Guardian kept blaming his errors on age , and perforce , there I was again with another angry letter — ‘ Son of Disgusted , Centre for Policy on Ageing ’ — pointing out that , like it or not , Ronald Reagan had always been like that , making the same kind of statement and endorsing the same brand of policies . |
| 33 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 34 | It had always been like that . |
| 35 | I 'll put a bit I thought it had always been like that . |
| 36 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 37 | The Chairman of Orkney Island Council Social Work Committee , Councillor Mairhi Trickett denied that any members of her department had ever been to any courses or seminars on the subject of ritual or satanic abuse . |
| 38 | ‘ Work , ’ she told him quietly , her eyes seeking the dark depths of his for something that would relate to what they had once been to each other in Seville . |
| 39 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 40 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 41 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 42 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ If it had n't been for that you 'd never have found us . ’ |
| 44 | If it had n't been for that you 'd have reached Shipton and been on a train by now . ’ |
| 45 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 46 | There were no sounds of any kind coming from Alina 's bedroom , and had n't been for more than an hour . |
| 47 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 48 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 49 | She would n't have sought her independence at all if it had n't been at such . |
| 50 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 51 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 52 | Mind you , it could have been cheaper if you had n't been in such a hurry . |
| 53 | If you had n't been in such a foul temper — ’ |
| 54 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 55 | It was easy now to write to Vincent about his father 's visit in a flippant , amusing way , but it had n't been like that at all . |
| 56 | But it had n't been like that . |
| 57 | It had n't been like that , she wanted to howl . |
| 58 | It had n't been like any other seance I had ever seen … |
| 59 | The terror , rather than tepidity , of the priesthood , it had undoubtedly been in many an Italian city in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries ; and even more , perhaps , in the bloody riots in Cologne in 1074 which nearly subdued the pride of the prince archbishop of the city — or the riots in Laon in 1112 which erupted in the murder of the unpopular Bishop Waldric , and gravely shocked both the chivalrous King Louis of France , and his neighbour the English king , Henry I , whose chancellor Waldric had been . |
| 60 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |