Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 2 | So that 's why there 'd been that electric air of haste pervading the whole episode . |
| 3 | Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table . |
| 4 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 5 | She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time . |
| 6 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 7 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 8 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 9 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 10 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 11 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 12 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 13 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 14 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 15 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 16 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 17 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 18 | There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock . |
| 19 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 20 | Well out of order , the thing is if that 'd been , if that 'd been another troop trying to do it to him , there would of been , there would of been shit |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 23 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 24 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 25 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 26 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 27 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 28 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 29 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
| 30 | If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them . |