Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] been [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Vitor believed her to have been three months pregnant in Adelaide , then he believed she had already been pregnant when they had made love ! |
| 2 | ‘ The Doctor says it 's been three years for you , ’ the Professor said . |
| 3 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 4 | But later a spokesman admitted there had been TWO surface subs in the area around that time . |
| 5 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 6 | Yeah , but there 's been , I think there 's been one warning when |
| 7 | The BBC said there had been 12 calls about the programme some complimentary . |
| 8 | It said there had been seven votes cast and a clear majority for Prime Suspect . |
| 9 | ‘ It all looks ludicrous now ’ , observed David Widgery , ‘ but if you realize there had been twenty years of Cold War normalism this was a very exuberant reaction to the world of Pepsodent ads , and the father-mother-children-aren't-we-normal ? kind of thing which was still the prevailing mentality . |