Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 3 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 4 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 5 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 6 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 7 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 8 | But she had only been one of two . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's none of your damned business ! ’ she snapped half-heartedly , yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain , because Ryan had only been ardent at first ; after that , it had been she who had made the advances . |
| 10 | Here again Suger was reasserting royal supremacy in a world which had long been deaf to such claims . |
| 11 | Theology had long been familiar with this kind of argument , and had on occasion made very extensive use of it . |
| 12 | The inspiration for the experiment was the German Jugendherbergen accommodation which had long been popular with English trampers and cyclists . |
| 13 | Fortunately for him Kennedy had long been interested in British politics , and included Churchill among his heroes . |
| 14 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 15 | Japan had already been victorious in two major wars , against China in 1894–5 and Russia in 1904–5 ; she was a world power and possessor of colonies . |
| 16 | In the nineteenth century architects had largely been concerned with special buildings produced for civic , commercial , ecclesiastical and landowner clients . |
| 17 | Great-Aunt Alicia had always been susceptible to good-looking men , Sara reflected , and then had to admit to herself , but never feeble-minded about them . |
| 18 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 19 | His clinical approach to his job had always been one of complete professionalism . |
| 20 | However , the diplomacy which really mattered had always been that of sovereign states ; this final withering away of the claims of other entities to conduct some sort of foreign relations of their own was merely a kind of necessary tidying-up , the clearing of an undergrowth of quasi-diplomacy . |
| 21 | A U-boat captain of distinction in the First World War , he had headed the Abwehr since 1935 and despite being a loyal German had always been unhappy with National Socialism . |
| 22 | They point out that whereas merchants had always been welcome at royal courts as vendors of precious things , in the eighth century , and increasingly in the ninth and tenth centuries , kings embarked on more ambitious attempts to exploit systematically the resources of their realms . |
| 23 | He and Franca had always been fond of each other . |
| 24 | ‘ I had always been interested in flying kites ever since I was young , so when someone offered me one for sale , I jumped at the chance , ’ added , whose wife has also become hooked on the sport . |
| 25 | But in fact it was too late , if indeed it had ever been possible after 1950 , for Britain to assert its will on the Six , especially upon France . |
| 26 | A week earlier , Michael Heseltine , whose challenge in the leadership election contest brought about her fall , had still been adamant in public that he would not stand against her . |
| 27 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 28 | Curiously , his father had also been one of three captains in a series against West Indies ; he , though , had not suffered the indignity of being refused admission to the car park at the ground because the attendant did not recognize him . |
| 29 | It was difficult to redirect rapidly the thinking of the Department of Industry , which had traditionally been interested in regional , not urban , policy . |
| 30 | The spacious stone house had originally been one of three sharing the same hilly and thickly wooded parcel of land . |