Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] been [det] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 6 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 7 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 15 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 16 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 17 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 'Cos I 've been this morning and I 've cleared fireplace out , washed |
| 20 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 21 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 22 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 23 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 24 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |