Example sentences of "[verb] been [adj] [noun] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 2 | So I 'm zooming down , which I thought must have been fifty mile an hour , but it was probably only about five really , or ten , but er put the brake on for the platform to stop , no chance , it just kept going . |
| 3 | She had never been on a train before and the speed , which must have been twenty miles an hour , made her as excited as a child . |
| 4 | For he said — Hugh Beringar said — that Brother Cadfael understands wounds , having been many years a man-at-arms . ’ |
| 5 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 6 | When a younger and less sophisticated Hank had come quietly through the back gate in search of the garage , the couple had been busy planting a lilac tree . |
| 7 | PUPILS at Ayresome junior school , Middlesbrough , have been busy painting a mural which was declared officially open yesterday . |
| 8 | And and come in on the , he came on the Tuesday and he 's been three days a couple of weeks so |