Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of an hour , only one ‘ little feller ’ too young to know better had been in Auguste 's possession , and William and Joseph were scarcely able to restrain their mirth . |
| 2 | Bradshaw and Millar found that 24 per cent of lone mothers who were or ever had been on income support said they had been , or would be , unwilling to give such information to the DSS . |
| 3 | Quite apart form the new radical Arab regimes , the Soviet Union remained a bellicoes , threatening neighbour — as Russia almost always had been to Persia . |
| 4 | After had been at U.C.L. for a few months , the C.R.C . |
| 5 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 6 | Someone moved , close by , someone whose approach so far had been in silence , and she quickly took her hand away . |
| 7 | She could almost smell the rich fermentation of silage like there 'd been around parts of Ecoville , or the green alkali of the air-plants . |
| 8 | Most other wars prior had been over land or religion , this was over ideology . |
| 9 | Britain by then had been at war with Germany for two years , but the Soviet Union was only drawn into the conflict in June by a sudden German invasion , whilst the US entered the war in December after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor . |
| 10 | All the land out there had been under water once . |
| 11 | You would think that somebody else had been in control of our public finances for the past fourteen years . ’ |
| 12 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |
| 13 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |
| 14 | Since Dysart too had been to Oxford , it was possible that by taking Morpurgo on at Tyler 's Hard he had merely been doing an old chum a favour . |
| 15 | She too had been to Canonmills and Broughton school ( though she says she was " not very clever " ) and first of all went to work at a draper 's shop in the West End , a job for which she remained still nostalgic . |