Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this . |
| 2 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 3 | Both brothers had never been in any kind of trouble before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 6 | Dancing had never been like this . |
| 7 | Surely Faye had already been through enough ! |
| 8 | In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed . |
| 9 | But the party conflict had always been about more than the succession . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Charles remembered that Gerald had always been like that . |
| 12 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 13 | But Ximena was seized with such fear as if her heart would have broken ; she and her daughters had never been in such fear since the day that they were born . |