Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 2 | It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy . |
| 3 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 4 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 5 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 6 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 7 | He had been at such pains . |
| 8 | The tension between them , the sexual feeling , had been at such a pitch . |
| 9 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 10 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 11 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |
| 12 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |