Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 2 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 3 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 4 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 5 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 6 | I 'd never been to New Earth before . |
| 7 | Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’ |
| 8 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 9 | In official talks begun on June 10 , however , the then Romanian Environment Minister Simion Hincu told his Bulgarian counterpart , Aleksandur Aleksandrov , that the offending factory had been closed in 1988 , and that atmospheric emissions had since been within permissible limits . |
| 10 | One of them had only been at Long Lartin for three weeks … |
| 11 | The OEO Agent had obviously been in continuous pain by the end of their long , slow hike , and Bernice was able to boost the feed of chemicals provided by Defries 's combat suit . |
| 12 | Litigants were likely to be neighbours who had long been on hostile terms . |
| 13 | Thus the death in 1751 of the Prince of Wales , who had long been on bad terms with his father , led to a virtual collapse for the time being of all political opposition . |
| 14 | The principles of variation ornamentation , thematic reshaping , and so on — had long been in common use . |
| 15 | I also think he had been slightly influenced by Father D'Arcy , with whom lie had apparently been in recent touch . |
| 16 | Nathan had not been on enough flights to be anything but excited , and he was going north of the Arctic Circle for the first time . |
| 17 | There was a lesson at school I should have loved if it had not been for poor Lucy . |
| 18 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 19 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 21 | And equally clearly , concealed in the base of the box , it had not been for public view . |
| 22 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 23 | The first defendant appealed on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the deputy judge had been wrong in law in holding that for the substituted section 9 ( b ) of the Wills Act 1837 to be satisfied the testator had to make his signature after making the dispositive provisions ; and ( 2 ) there was no sufficient evidence upon which the deputy judge could have found that the testator had not been of testamentary capacity at the time he had made and signed the alleged codicil on 18 April 1986 . |
| 24 | Lane had been assisted by a woman police officer , Detective -Sergeant Phyllis Henley , a thickset girl , whom he had called in because she was an old friend or enemy of Roxie whose own life had not been without criminal excitements . |
| 25 | Football specials still arrive at Wadsley Bridge although the station had not been in normal use since 1959 . |
| 26 | She had not been in that position . |
| 27 | ‘ Why , my lord , when we were left alone — and I think if they had not been in such haste to move on they would not have left a man of us alive to tell the tale — we first tended the worst hurt , and took counsel , and decided we must take the news on to Ramsey , and also back here to Shrewsbury . |
| 28 | Harry had not been in good shape in Jo 's memory . |
| 29 | as if she had just been in actual combat she dropped down on to the couch and sat gasping , drawing in long , shuddering breaths . |
| 30 | Sadism had always been of theoretical interest to Freud , and he suggests in Beyond the Pleasure Principle that it derives its energy from the death instincts . |