Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 2 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 3 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 5 | And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again . |
| 6 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |
| 7 | He said that the message that " environment means business " had only been understood by few companies , and that small and medium-sized ones in particular had been slow to recognize the opportunities . |
| 8 | What 's more , she was on top of the Poll , and had obviously been supported by many men members . |
| 9 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 10 | Sandro Calvani , head of UNDCP 's Bolivian operations , defends his group 's activities , pointing out that his organisation started relief work in an area that had long been shunned by most other international agencies as too dangerous . |
| 11 | The second strand , the Bacon and Eltis thesis , took up a theme which had long been forgotten by all but Marxist economists , the distinction between ‘ productive ’ and ‘ unproductive ’ labour . |
| 12 | Aube wines had long been used by several Champagne houses , albeit on the quiet , and with no delimited region fixed the practice began to increase . |
| 13 | The principles underlying the poll tax had long been criticised by some sections of the party . |
| 14 | I think his system had already been weakened by some other compound , anyway . ’ |
| 15 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 16 | Knowing the complications and expense involved in getting together the various unguents required , one can assume that these items had already been accumulated by those to whom the task of embalming the royal remains had been devolved . |
| 17 | This clearance was important because I did intend to ask one or two questions about a matter which had already been aired in several books and articles , her love affair with H. G. Wells and the child of that union , the writer Anthony West . |
| 18 | This approach , which had already been followed by several German theologians in the nineteenth century , especially Gottfried Thomasius ( 1802–15 ) , took its cue from Philippians 2:7 , which speaks of Christ as having ‘ emptied himself ’ ( in Greek , ekenosen ) . |
| 19 | The significance of internal structures had already been accepted in some cases ( otherwise whales and dolphins would be classified as fish rather than as mammals ) , but Cuvier made this central to the classification of the whole animal kingdom . |
| 20 | Undamped relaxation oscillations had already been seen in such lasers , and at the time of writing there is the exciting prospect that the Lorenz system of equations may soon develop an experimental significance in laser physics to match their theoretical impact . |
| 21 | Like the previous speakers I greatly welcome the concessions er proposed by the Government er in the police aspect of the Bill , although I c ca n't refrain from commenting that I simply can not understand why they were surprised at the reaction to their original proposal , given what had already been said in this House and by everybody that they consulted , but welcome though these concessions are , er I myself find them falling short of the ideal in three respects . |
| 22 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 23 | Mr Gandhi 's murder came in the middle of a general-election campaign that had already been marred by more killing , intimidation and vote-grabbing than India had seen in any of its nine previous elections . |
| 24 | Certainly Artai would consider no one who had already been married to another , whether she had children or not . |
| 25 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 26 | After 87 minutes Luton 's woe was complete as Sharp headed in a cross from Bernard , who had just been denied by another splendid stop from Chamberlain . |
| 27 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 28 | He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge . |
| 29 | There were notices in Enderley Park warning strangers that the woods were private , but the villagers had always been allowed over all the estate . |
| 30 | The surveyors for the new tunnel reckoned that no tunnel except Brindley 's before it had ever been driven through such hard rock . |