Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 2 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 3 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 4 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 5 | in nineteen thirty and ninety thirty one I won the cup , I 'd been twelve year old then . |
| 6 | We 'd been two West Country boys sharing a desert tent in Fayid . |
| 7 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 8 | There 'd been numerous dark arched carved-wood doors leading off the hall , most of which she had still to investigate … |
| 9 | More recently , there 'd been further reappraisal of America 's bluesmeisters and U2 hauled in BB King to jointly provide a Top Ten single in ‘ When Love Comes To Town ’ , while Gary Moore charted with the aid of Albert King . |
| 10 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 12 | There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock . |
| 13 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 14 | Well out of order , the thing is if that 'd been , if that 'd been another troop trying to do it to him , there would of been , there would of been shit |
| 15 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 16 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 17 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 18 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 19 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 20 | There 'd been Holy Communion at eight this morning , and afternoon prayers . |
| 21 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 22 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 23 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 24 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 25 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
| 26 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 27 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 28 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 29 | I 'd been half-hoping Vecchi might show before I sent Laura Channing out to what might develop into target-practice . |
| 30 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |