Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then back to the shop , with Lucy now taking the money from her pinafore pocket where it had been tied in her handkerchief , and paying for the corn ; to go on her way feeling quite a little woman of the world . |
| 2 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 3 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
| 4 | Thus , in October of 1154 , Barbarossa mounted his first expedition , with the aim of restoring papal authority where it had been challenged , and fully realising the imperial crown . |
| 5 | It was substantially enlarged from £30 million per annum to about £125 million per annum , and was transferred from the Home Office ( where it had been since 1968 ) to the Department of the Environment . |
| 6 | I watched the re-run of the race on the big stadium scoreboard , checked that I had run second and then went back under to collect my kit from the airless , sweat-filled room where it had been taken from the start . |
| 7 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 8 | Stains on fabric and leather had yielded to chemical analysis to reveal the exact chemical components of the explosive ; the extent of burn- and impact-deterioration had shown him how much was used , where it had been placed and how it had been triggered . |
| 9 | When it was over , the top of his head ached where it had been crammed up against the headboard and there were red marks just below his knees where his legs had gone over the footboard . |
| 10 | Hank paid five dollars from his paper money as the first month 's rent , and , later that day , he and several of his friends pushed a dowager of a car round from his back lane , where it had been dumped by a tow truck , into the Dawsons ' garage . |
| 11 | Recently a member heard of an 1870 five compartment EX-L & SWR coach incorporated in the garden of Mike Rule of Fyfield , Andover where it had been the home to a family of eight from 1920 to 1965 . |
| 12 | Naumann and occasional partner Alfred Bader purchased the work at Christie 's , London , in December 1992 for £1,045,000 ( $1,610,345 ) , where it had been consigned as ‘ The Property of a Lady and a Gentleman ’ . |
| 13 | It was found abandoned at about 7.30am yesterday in Northlands Approach , off Dry Street — about four miles across town — where it had been driven into a garden wall . |
| 14 | Rather neatly , the sale 's top lot , Mrs Johnson 's bureau plat by Leleu , which sold on a commission bid at £1.1. million ( $2 million ; estimate in excess of £750,000 ) , had been purchased by her from Christie 's for £300,000 in 1981 , where it had been consigned from Meikleour , having formed part of the original collection . |
| 15 | She put out the light , leaving it exactly where it had been , for Philip . |
| 16 | All colour had faded from the sky : and although the big board by the gate creaked slightly in the night wind ( as though to insist that it had not disappeared in the darkness , but was still firmly where it had been put ) , there was no passer-by to read the sharp , hard letters that cut straight as black knives across its white surface . |
| 17 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 18 | Meikle [ 1990 ] Crim.L.R. 801 , where it had been made clear that prosecutors are fully entitled to bring any number of offences against a single defendant at different times and so cause to be in existence a number of custody time limits not coinciding wholly with one another . |
| 19 | He was standing back to admire the conflagration when the full weight of its rightful resident landed on him from a bough above , where it had been watching . |
| 20 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |
| 21 | He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face , and she felt her skin tingle where it had been touched . |
| 22 | A short note from a spy in Paris : Eudo Tailler 's head had been fished from the Seine where it had been thrown in a sack . |
| 23 | He suddenly captured her hand and placed it where it had been before , over the steady beat of his heart . |
| 24 | In addition , in a number of LEA areas where it had been decided , mainly for doctrinaire reasons , not to submit bids , we have received individual bids from schools . |
| 25 | The embalmed corpse of Georgi Dimitrov , Bulgaria 's Communist leader from 1946 until his death in 1949 , was removed on July 18 from the mausoleum in central Sofia where it had been on public display , and was cremated in a private ceremony . |
| 26 | Engineers in Germany successfully fired thrusters on Aug. 7 to boost the European Space Agency ( ESA ) US$400,000,000 Eureka research satellite to an altitude of 507 km from a dangerously low orbit of 100km where it had been stuck due to data communication problems . |
| 27 | Late in 1941 a memorandum to the National Executive indicated , as might have been expected , that the main area of loss of membership was London and the home and eastern counties , where it had been most necessary to evacuate the population . |
| 28 | Hawthorn 's despatch case lay where it had been knocked over . |
| 29 | I sat cross-legged just by the blaze , staring into it from up-wind until it was out and only the metal of the Black Destroyer remained , then I took the sooty skeleton and buried it where it had been ruined , at the bottom of the hill . |
| 30 | She 'd had to use , muscle tissue had wasted away where it had been stretched by the double hernia |