Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 2 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 3 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 5 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 6 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 7 | In the daylight Julie could see the holes in the road which , the previous night , she 'd only been able to feel . |
| 8 | She 'd obviously been confused and had things on her mind . |
| 9 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 10 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 11 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 12 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 13 | ‘ She 'd not been long in the village . |
| 14 | She 'd not been able to think what to say . |
| 15 | No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent . |
| 16 | She 'd already been married and divorced and she was quite a bit older than him and I , I was n't very happy about it to start , but they seem to have settled down alright |
| 17 | We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 19 | and I 'd always been sorry that my dad told us , you know . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 22 | It was terrible , I 'd always been independent , or when I was n't for a while I got my own social security money . |
| 23 | SHe 'd always been able to disassociate ‘ work ’ from pleasure , clients from lovers , but had been worried that the experience of Jahsaxa 's friends mauling hir might have intruded into this objectivity . |
| 24 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 25 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 26 | This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in . |
| 27 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 28 | She 'd done it the night before when she 'd tried to get hold of Jessica , but Aunt Jane had turned the radio up so loudly ( to make it nice and private for her niece ) that she 'd hardly been able to decipher Mrs Roberts ' apology for her daughter 's absence . |
| 29 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 30 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |