Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polly jerked as though she had been slapped . |
| 2 | Lord Pearson agreed that if there had been an error it would have been jurisdictional but found no such mistake . |
| 3 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
| 4 | Perplexed , Ashley looked at him , then it registered that as she had been astonished to see him so he was equally stunned to see her . |
| 5 | Department of the Environment ministers announced that though they had been advised that the statue was part of the listed building , and that consent was therefore required for its removal , they none the less considered it was a chattel , and would not take enforcement action . |
| 6 | Earlier Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke admitted that if it had been his decision in 1953 he would have reprieved 19-year-old Bentley from the gallows . |
| 7 | Official accounts of the trial noted that although he had been involved in plotting the occupation of Tiananmen Square , he had given himself up to the police and had shown " repentance " . |
| 8 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Ms Lyles noted that while there have been major surveys of British watercolours in recent years ( such as that held at the British Museum in 1985 ) these have tended to be in-house shows , with the emphasis on highlights from individual collections . |
| 9 | A letter from her killer and kidnapper to West Yorkshire Police claimed that after she had been beaten unconscious , then strangled , her body had been kept in a wheelie-bin for two days before being taken to where it was later found Easton , near Grantham , Lincs in July 1991 . |
| 10 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 11 | Her gaze flicked over Riven cursorily , and he stiffened as though he had been struck . |
| 12 | Reaching for a cup , her arm accidentally brushed his and she flinched as though she 'd been burned , which brought forth another acid comment . |
| 13 | However Springette v Defoe [ 1992 ] Fam Law 459 ( which was not a case between husband and wife ) decided that where there had been no discussion between the parties about their respective beneficial interests , the Court could not infer an intention of equal shares ; the shares were presumed to be in proportion to their respective contributions . |
| 14 | To his horror Henry saw that as he had been brushing her teeth he had started to grip her neck , hard . |
| 15 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 16 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 17 | And she knew that if she had been made welcome from the start , she would still want to be with them , in spite of this comparative luxury . |
| 18 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 19 | Maybe people thought that since she 'd been a witch when alive , she 'd be a ghost once she was dead . |
| 20 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 21 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 22 | But in a typically maverick comment on the matter , Baden-Powell thought that if there had been an increase in juvenile crime , then this was ‘ rather a promising sign ’ . |
| 23 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 24 | I was still worrying about this when I pulled into the hotel at Huacho , the mist thicker than ever and my eyes so tired they felt as though they had been sand-blasted . |
| 25 | Quite normal duties for a revenue cutter , but there was nothing normal about that particular week we spent in Ullapool at the end of which we all felt as though we had been through a wringer . |
| 26 | Now , in the sudden silence , Tug felt as though he had been stripped naked and pushed out into a football crowd . |
| 27 | It felt as though he had been fed through a mincing machine . |
| 28 | He felt as though he 'd been pounded hard by something . |
| 29 | There was no effect on my mind at all , but my body felt as though it had been in the sun too long . |
| 30 | That implied being carefree , and she felt as though it had been decades since she had felt that way , and it had nothing whatsoever to do with Jonathan . |