Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 3 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 4 | She 'd been convinced all along that eventually she must lose him , that Marianne was right — some other attraction must inevitably draw him away . |
| 5 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 6 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 7 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 8 | Simon was convinced , or persuaded himself , that he 'd been ill used by Constanza , that their marriage had been a mistake , a youthful mistake , the kind of thing one did in a war . |
| 9 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 10 | But then , she 'd been lonely all her life . |
| 11 | And she 'd been blind positive he 'd ask her out . |
| 12 | Tonbridge had a much closer call in the semi-final , the crucial third point coming against Stowe at the fourth extra hole from Martin Yates and Simon Ellis , former Cambridge captain , who had been dormy three down . |
| 13 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 14 | The evidence shows that this may well be a case in which failures by the ambulance service to provide an ambulance more quickly to a person who was in extremis was a cause of the death which might have been avoidable if the ambulance had been available earlier . |
| 15 | He had been Liberal Unionist Chief Whip , with Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office , First Lord of the Admiralty , Milner 's successor in South Africa , and a ditcher over the House of Lords . |
| 16 | The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme . |
| 17 | The deal was effectively concluded in November 1992 , but had been pending final approval by the European Community , which is financing the project under its PHARE programme . |
| 18 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 19 | Middlesbrough Council spokesman Mike Clark said the £15,000 available for grants had been over-subscribed four times . |
| 20 | Since time immemorial ‘ Staggy ’ had been drip-feeding ambitious junior researchers with toxin , preparing them for the stronger poisons which lay ahead . |
| 21 | At another NEW party , there had been present one of the journal 's current gurus , Midrinovic , probably taken up first by Orage , who collected such people ( at one time he was a disciple of Gurdjieff ) . |
| 22 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 23 | Secondly there 's some of the nurses who were n't present at the meeting three weeks ago who had been present three years ago . |
| 24 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 25 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 26 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 27 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 28 | Her teacher had been right all those years ago , reflected Busacher . |
| 29 | All of the cadets had been force-taught correct Imperial Gothic under hypno-casques . |
| 30 | On the other hand the number of university graduates greatly increased : many of them had served in the forces , usually as officers , and several had been temporary civil servants . |