Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last year an East India company in the tea trade had gone bankrupt , and the court found it had actually been insolvent for a quarter of a century — which had come as a great surprise even to the directors . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | The Americans were 11 under par when it finished they had also been six under in the Foursomes when they beat Gordon Brand and Sam Torrance . |
| 4 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 5 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 6 | She thought she had never been happier , not even in Seville , which was peculiar because in Seville they had been free . |
| 7 | However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control . |
| 8 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 9 | He thought they had unquestionably been right to believe Nuadu and Tealtaoich and the others . |
| 10 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 11 | Auntie said she had never been interested in horse-racing , and disapproved of it because of the betting . |
| 12 | She said she had always been interested in science , but had been put off because everyone told her it was n't for girls , only boys . |
| 13 | Table 4.6 takes all those who were able to give an answer at both first and second assessments ( third assessment is omitted as numbers able to give an answer on all three occasions were very small ) , and compares the action and control samples on : the number who admitted to worrying in the past month ; said they had been sad or depressed ; said they had often been lonely ; and admitted to being not very or not at all happy ( for analysis of all items in the depression scale used in the interviews see Lindesay & Murphy , 1988 ) . |
| 14 | While she worked she wondered what had really been wrong with William . |