Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 2 | His previous experience had been as assistant boss of one of the smaller London museums . |
| 3 | Considering that Walter Luff will be forever associated with the modernisation of the Blackpool tramway in the Thirties , it was surprising that his previous appointment had been as Commercial Manager of the West Riding Tramways Company , which had just abandoned its trams . |
| 4 | None had experienced higher education , but 19 had been on some form of post-16 provision . |
| 5 | But Alicia Lockwood at seventy-nine had been as strong-willed as she had been at any time of her life . |
| 6 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 7 | The detainees had been among 115 signatories of an open letter to Siyad Barre which called for a negotiated end to civil war , respect for human and civil rights , and multiparty elections . |
| 8 | If she had been like most women of her time she would never have gone to Navron or kept Willian ( the Frenchman 's servant employed . |
| 9 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 10 | The armed forces , he said , had been in complete control of the country within days of the 1973 coup . |
| 11 | Though the sack of Delphi by the Celts is a legend , Apollo 's city had been in actual danger of being sacked . |
| 12 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 13 | If he had a dubious work record , or had been in any kind of trouble , it often did n't matter . |