Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 2 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 3 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 4 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 5 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 6 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 7 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 8 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 9 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 10 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 11 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 12 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 13 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 14 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 15 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 16 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 17 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 18 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 19 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 20 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 21 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 22 | 'Cos I 've been this morning and I 've cleared fireplace out , washed |
| 23 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 24 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 25 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 26 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 27 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 28 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 29 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |