Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 2 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 3 | The poem was the finest Wordsworth had yet written , and , coming so soon after his departure from Alfoxden , suggests that the loss to him of the Quantock countryside had been of little real significance . |
| 4 | Rather , I felt a strange exaltation that our brief married life together — consisting of but a few short leaves — had been of such ravishing sweetness , and that I had not spoiled it as I had spoiled things over two years before . |
| 5 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 6 | She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together : |
| 7 | It would not have been so light a thing to her if Hotspur had been among those dour-faced lordlings clattering through the streets of Shrewsbury with their shame . |
| 8 | In 1944 the Ingushis and the Chechens had been among several ethnic groups charged en masse with collaborating with the Nazi German invaders and deported to Central Asia . |
| 9 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 10 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 11 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 12 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 13 | She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl . |
| 14 | The Billeting Office found us accommodation , but no one appeared to be responsible for us otherwise , though I expect we could have gone to our administrative chief Harold Fletcher , if we had been in any serious trouble . |
| 15 | Was she praying for resurrection , asking the mysterious , invisible Maker of All Things to hasten the day when she and her dearly loved man would be united again as they had been in those golden days long past ? |
| 16 | And having arrived at so much in the way of a comparison , she saw , suddenly revealed to her , how much there had been in those other rooms to admire . |