Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 4 | The GCC six had been interested parties from the very beginning . |
| 5 | All three had been prominent opposition figures in the period before November 1989 . |
| 6 | These had been regular church-goers in the Caribbean but had not felt at home in the more restrained worship of the British churches , and some had felt cold-shouldered by the white members . |
| 7 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 8 | Previously , March 25 had been New Year 's Day with attendant ceremonies leading to a climax on April 1 . |
| 9 | How prophetic had been those words he 'd written . |
| 10 | That had been harmless fun . |
| 11 | But that had been pure chance . |
| 12 | That had been twelve years ago , just one year after the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council had promoted him to Director at the Atomic Energy Commission . |
| 13 | But that had been thirty years before , and the British were still there . |
| 14 | But that had been sixteen months ago and she was still here . |
| 15 | Now that had been one hell of a scrap . |
| 16 | That had been one month before . |
| 17 | That had been old Ian Paisley last time he was in the old country , but he had popped his clogs of apoplexy while explaining the Fall of Port Stanley to Robin Day on Nationwide and it was that upstart Jeffrey Archer now . |
| 18 | That had been old Throgmorton 's idea . |
| 19 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 20 | That had been last night . |
| 21 | But that had been last month . |
| 22 | That had been some encounter ! she admitted as , regaining the sanctuary of the street , she drew in a deep breath of refreshing air before turning into the road which she remembered from her map-reading would lead her into a series of narrow streets closed to traffic , and known familiarly to the local inhabitants as Strøget . |
| 23 | And the Princess Joanna 's marriage to David Stewart was to be declared null and void , since both had been mere infants at its celebration , and the princess free to marry whomsoever her royal brother selected , Balliol himself being glad and privileged to wed her if this was his Lord Edward 's will and choice . |
| 24 | Both had been presidential bodyguards with the Reagan administration but neither of them had ever had to draw his gun in anger . |