Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 3 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 4 | The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently . |
| 5 | But what happened to the crushed tomatoes which had been such a success , Were they abandoned in favour of whole canned tomatoes ? |
| 6 | Beside the door of each room a supply of ready-loaded firearms had been laid ; every available weapon , from the Enfield rifles of those killed earlier in the siege to native flintlocks and the countless sporting guns which had been such a feature of " the possessions " , had been pressed into service . |
| 7 | This was the 1st Ukrainian Division , many of whose members came from those parts of Poland incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1939 and which had been such a special concern of the AFHQ letter of 6 March defining " Soviet nationals " . |
| 8 | By contrast , the early 1980s were dominated by the re-emergence of the drift to the South East which had been such a focus of attention in the 1950s and early 1960s . |
| 9 | Focus on the two-party system , the growing strength of the organized working-class and the gradual decline of the big single-issue movements which had been such a central feature of the mid-Victorian political scene were visible signs of this transformation . |
| 10 | To relinquish her calling , or the possibility of the companionship and family life which had been such an influential part of her background . |
| 11 | The parameters of the religious issue might have been changed somewhat by the grudging toleration granted to Protestant Nonconformists in 1689 , but the religious settlement can scarcely be said to have provided a satisfactory solution to the issue of Dissent which had been such a source of tension in Restoration society . |
| 12 | As a result of this new alliance with the bishops , we see little of the anti-episcopalian rhetoric which had been such a prominent feature of the Whig platform during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 13 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
| 14 | I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’ |
| 15 | Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table . |
| 16 | She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time . |
| 17 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 18 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 19 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 20 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 21 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 22 | The truth shall set you free , but oh , the truth of her past had not done that — it had simply shown her what a selfish , unthinking thing she had been that first Terry Rourke , and then Havvie Blaine could have exploited her so . |
| 23 | She was nervous before stepping onto the set of Delinquents , just as she had been all those years ago when she did the rehearsals for The Henderson Kids . |
| 24 | She would be now , as she had been all that day , out praying for his soul . |
| 25 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 26 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 27 | She was becoming almost as sensitive to him as she had been all those years ago . |
| 28 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 29 | She had been little more than a child when I first saw her , but no-one could forget her beautiful , lively eyes . |
| 30 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |