Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 2 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 3 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 4 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 5 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 6 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 7 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 8 | This time next week it 'll be as though you 'd been there all your life . |
| 9 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |
| 10 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 11 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 12 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 13 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 14 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 15 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
| 16 | Probably because he 'd been so much on her mind , she instantly fell into dreaming of Adam , his dark fathomless eyes and granite features dominating her sleep . |
| 17 | When she 'd been very little , not too long after her parents had died , she 'd had bad dreams . |
| 18 | Imogen had lived in Hampstead , and had been just such an attractive sixth-former when he had met her on a trip to the States . |
| 19 | He was an opportunist , who took advantage of the chances fate laid out for him , and this last weekend had been just such an example . |
| 20 | It was little more than a whisper as Gina flinched from the anguish on his drawn face , every instinct telling her he was speaking the truth , and that Lotta 's cruel fabrication had been just that — a compilation of lies in order to destroy what she could no longer possess . |
| 21 | How chagrined he would be to learn that she had n't sought the interview in the first place ; that had been just another of the wrong conclusions that he had drawn about her ! |
| 22 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 23 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 24 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 25 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 26 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 27 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 28 | Alice Pell — who for two years said she ate , slept and breathed the 1964 pie and had been up half the night cooking it — was there happily serving up the 1988 one . |
| 29 | He had been up half the previous night upon a quite different case , and all this night upon this , which had only just become a case , and his , after all . |
| 30 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |