Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course would have been incomplete if it had only been about these technical matters , fascinating as they are . |
| 2 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 3 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 4 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 5 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 6 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 7 | Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive . |
| 8 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |