Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 2 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 3 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 4 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 8 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 9 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 10 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 11 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 12 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 13 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 14 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 15 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 16 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 17 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 18 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 19 | He saw and he cared , but it had been many months since he had counted with her . |
| 20 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 21 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 22 | It had been all whispers and lies till they got to the shop . |
| 23 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 24 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |
| 25 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 26 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 27 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 28 | It had been some time now since the old pilots had been in a dog-fight , and Killion for one was sweating heavily by the time he landed . |
| 29 | Whichever way , she probably had n't given it much thought at the time and it had been some time later when her mother had told her that he had left the country and gone abroad to work . |
| 30 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |