Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only all school trips had been like this . |
| 2 | For some weeks now , Rusty had been in that peculiarly unreal state when words leap out from pages , voices or one 's own thoughts , and rudely rattle their bones about , or shove their meanings under one 's nose like exhibitionists until the meanings themselves vanish in a dance of death . |
| 3 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Arab armies that invaded the new Israel were driven out , together with between 500,000 and 700,000 Arab Palestinians whose homes had been in that part of Palestine that was now Israel or in those areas of Arab Palestine that the Israelis captured . |
| 6 | Reported cases are small in number , and it may be true that in some ( not all ) of these cases the degree of trauma suffered by the wife is less than if the rape had been by another man ; but abolition of the marital-rape exemption is surely important as a statement of the married woman 's autonomy and freedom of choice in sexual matters . |
| 7 | Gen. Marin Neagoe , a former divisional chief of the Securitate security forces , was imprisoned for seven years on May 29 for his role in suppressing the riots ; on May 10 the former Securitate chief Julian Vlad had been among those sentenced to prison terms of up to five years [ see p. 38207 ] . |
| 8 | Eight hundred youngsters had been at that rave . |
| 9 | They were more uncertain than their parents had been about these things . |
| 10 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 11 | She supposed most normal people in a situation like the one she and Alan had been in all day , would have ended up in bed together , here in this comfortable bed at Rose Cottage . |
| 12 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 13 | It might have been very nearly normal if the movements had been like that . |
| 14 | P. G. Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster had been like that , in the Jeeves stories ; so was Tony Last in Evelyn Waugh 's A Handful of Dust ( 1934 ) , a model country gentleman who loses child , wife , estate and ultimately England itself , marooned as surely as Crusoe in an inland jungle where he is forced to read Dickens 's novels to an illiterate half-caste . |
| 15 | But Karen had been on these holidays before . |
| 16 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 17 | In it she declared how glad she was to think : ‘ … that the letter written by me to the King of Prussia at a critical moment had been of some use ’ , though quite what effect the letter may have had is unfortunately not spelt out . |
| 18 | In the view of private and public critics of the Wilberforce sons there was more than filiopietism at issue in their charge that Clarkson claimed leadership in the cause when their father was entitled to it ; they suggested Clarkson had been to all intents and purposes a paid agent of the Abolition Committee . |
| 19 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 20 | Originally the tax had been on each house ( or chimney ) and not a lump sum paid by diocese , and in 1205 Innocent III attempted to get the full amount , seeking Peter 's Pence " from each house that smoke comes out of " . |
| 21 | Her husband had been to all those places shortly before his death . |
| 22 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
| 23 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 24 | Their argument had been about that ; some minor point or another . |
| 25 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 26 | Aware that Madcap Agnew 's name was scarcely mentioned in the Hall , that the Lodge had been for many years a forbidden place , and that her father 's heart still quailed to reflect on the terrors he had suffered as a child , Louisa had not dared to let her reflections on this unhappy history reach far enough . |
| 27 | He smiled to think how accurate his suspicions had been in that direction . |
| 28 | When the incident had been over several minutes , Robert appeared , flustered because Lionel was not yet ready . |
| 29 | His first feelings of love had been for that gloriously liberated and beautiful tomboy . |
| 30 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |