Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were there Stan was with us and he 'd been a few times to Brussels to with the Labour Party and , and he said oh it 's great ! |
| 2 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 3 | If there 'd been the least sign of magical activity we 'd know about it . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 5 | In 1912 there had been no such preparation , merely a demand for solidarity which seemed unlikely to succeed . |
| 6 | It was not precisely true , but since Emilia 's first frail arrival in the room there had been no such promise of intimacy between the two women . |
| 7 | There had been no such consultation . |
| 8 | I was sickened by the apparent ruthlessness of it , though afterwards I accepted the published assurances of Jardine and Larwood that there had been no such intention . |
| 9 | There had been no more dreams . |
| 10 | There had been no more calls since the informant had rung with the news of the cocaine shipment . |
| 11 | But there had been no more children , and now Cousin Charlie would inherit . |
| 12 | There had been no more news about the murder inquiry by the time Loretta arrived at her office on Monday morning . |
| 13 | She 'd called Julie that morning to make sure she was all right , and that there had been no more trouble . |
| 14 | She had been a former child actress , making her film debut at the age of four , and at twelve she appeared in the London production of The Sound of Music . |
| 15 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 16 | There had been a few times , with my accent , I 'd been called names , but as soon as they knew I was Jewish I had a hundred mothers and brothers and fathers to take care of me . |
| 17 | All she had been told when she came round after the anaesthetic was that there had been a few complications and the operation had taken rather longer than had been expected . |
| 18 | And there had been a few lines from Ellen , proving that Oreste so far from being carried to heaven by an angel was firmly rooted in East Retford and had grown another two inches . |
| 19 | Parish clerk Jennie Flintoff said there had been a few accidents at the entrance to the village . |
| 20 | It had been a few months before Roy realised he had married what his mother would have called ‘ a lazy bitch ’ . |
| 21 | For , he was sure , no mistake , there had been a few flings in her life . |
| 22 | It had been a few years since he had served Mass last as an altar-boy in Rosstrevor , and even the new authority of his police sergeant 's stripes did little to compensate for his nervousness at being on the altar again . |
| 23 | He was a real old country doctor , of a type that is fast dying out , and she knew that if she had been a few years younger he would have patted her on the cheek . |
| 24 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 25 | It had been a few years since I 'd ridden a bike but it 's like sex , providing you do n't fall off , you soon get back into the swing of it . |
| 26 | I think this had been the former jockey 's house , for the Kirkwoods of Woodbrook survived into the middle of the twentieth century by breeding racehorses . |
| 27 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 28 | It had been the same sum for years . |