Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The pure white drifts of snow against the door of the hut convinced me that nobody had been that way recently .
2 Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation .
3 Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon .
4 Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day .
5 when she had been all hugs and trust for her father .
6 It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long .
7 It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour .
8 She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist .
9 ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm —
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about .
13 There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph .
14 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 .
15 If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now .
16 Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it .
17 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 . ’
18 Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy .
19 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 ?
20 And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes .
21 ‘ 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 . ’
22 Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there .
23 There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock .
24 In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest .
25 Over the years there had been many tributes to her beauty and her dancing , but the one I particularly treasure appeared only recently .
26 She still had the pearls , but there had been many tears since she first wore them .
27 Their action may have resulted from purely local causes : there had been many border clashes .
28 In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty .
29 When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact .
30 The report showed that there had been many changes and improvements since 1986 , but that some deficiencies remain .
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