Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |
| 2 | There had nevertheless been some significant overproduction against individual country quotas , apparently mainly by Iran ( an estimated 3,400,000 bpd against a quota of 3,184,000 ) and Kuwait ( whose 812,000 bpd quota reflected artificially low output levels in the aftermath of the destruction of production facilities in the Gulf War ) . |
| 3 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 4 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 5 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 6 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 7 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 8 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 9 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 10 | There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time . |
| 11 | The Boards were far from innocent , however , and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts . |
| 12 | There had never been much spare cash in the Burrows household . |