Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning . |
| 2 | The tree had been another meeting place of their childhood , and she knew the flaky bark and cracked pavement by heart . |
| 3 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 4 | The king had been many years a widower . |
| 5 | Neither husband nor daughter had been any help . |
| 6 | For heaven 's sake , she lectured herself despairingly , he was two-timing a fiancée back in England , and if last night 's incident had been any indication he was quite prepared to embark on a brief dalliance with her as well as Tara … |
| 7 | She should have known she was ill , got a doctor to see her earlier , not waited until the bronchitis had turned to pneumonia , so that none of their injections and treatment had been any good . |
| 8 | The new US approach fell short of outright recognition for Bazin 's government , but involved urging exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to meet with Bazin , whereas the earlier US position had been that Aristide should choose his own Prime Minister prior to his return to the country . |
| 9 | His evasion of her sensible scheme for his comfort had been another repulse . |
| 10 | Labour 's traditional view had been that interest rates should be kept down and investment restricted to feasible levels , not by monetary policy , but by quantitative credit controls and physical materials controls . |