Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 2 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 3 | A hundred years ago they might have made sense , due to ignorance : like the child said , there 'd been talk of witches . |
| 4 | Before Rope Thrower subdued the Great Chief Manuelito — among whose lieutenants was Hawk 's many-times-great grandfather Armijo — the Navaho had been herders of horses and cattle , cultivators of corn , pumpkins , wheat and melons and famous for their groves of peach trees . |
| 5 | But here it is epigraphy which has added most strikingly to our knowledge : as early as Herodotus ' day there had been Persians with names like Megabates at Halikarnassus ( ML 32 ) , and new inscriptions from fourth-century Labraunda , a sanctuary in Persian-held Karia , attest the Iranian proper names Phrathethnes and Ariarames ( Inscriptions of Labraunda 77 ; 28 ) . |
| 6 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 7 | Still , there had been unity of sorts . |
| 8 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 9 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 10 | This was one of the voyages in which the men of science were in charge , in that the point of the expedition was scientific ; often there had been frustration among scientists on voyages because the captain 's instructions , or his interpretation of them , did not let him stay at interesting places as long as they would have liked , or put enough boats and crews at their disposal . |
| 11 | In the Reformation this had been North-South between Protestants and Catholics . |
| 12 | Suffolk Wildlife Trust director Derek Moore said there had been reports of rabbits and other creatures being shot at by four-wheel drive enthusiasts as the vehicles moved around the ness . |
| 13 | Many of the accidents were foreseen , there had been warnings about fires in Tubes , how quickly ferries sank , and the hazards at football grounds . |
| 14 | In some cases she suggested that there had been coalescence of settlements , with the abandonment of the earlier pattern of hamlets and combining of lands and holdings . |
| 15 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 16 | People said it was smoothed over , and that there had been adjustments of personnel in the agriculture department . |
| 17 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 18 | All across Canada there had been outbursts of feelings against the way radio broadcasting had been handled , and one of these certainly came from the Moose Jaw area . |
| 19 | There had been talk of privatisations worth $16m ; in the event the take will be half that . |
| 20 | She remembered there had been fire in starbursts never seen before , and explosions of noise . |
| 21 | Most of the transmission had been pictures of malai soldiers back home in malai-land , strumming guitars in their uniforms , singing with their arms round each other , carrying kids , helping old ladies . |
| 22 | There had been rumours of redundancies . |
| 23 | There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming . |