Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 2 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 3 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 4 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 5 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |
| 6 | He had been dead some time . ’ |
| 7 | She was cold , she had been dead some time . |
| 8 | Kuttner Dowd had been here several times , though never when the Society was assembled , as it was tonight . |
| 9 | They had been together all morning , but little had been said . |
| 10 | They had been about half way through when the message had come from the District Chief . |
| 11 | Before agreement was reached to establish the SEM by the end of 1992 , there had been very little progress towards establishing the Common Market . |
| 12 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 13 | The ceiling and the walls in places were badly scorched , but structurally there had been very little damage and , luckily , the fire had been brought under control before it had had time to spread to other parts of the building . |
| 14 | And in times when there had been very little money , it had kept them going , Jasper and her , for months . |
| 15 | When she had been little , once Fenna had taught her how to fly so that she no longer went wandering off , there had been very little time when she had been left alone . |
| 16 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |
| 17 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 18 | There had been very few patients . |
| 19 | There had been so many meetings ; 80 a day , someone had told him . |
| 20 | There had been so many secrets . |
| 21 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 22 | During the short time their marriage had lasted , there had been so many times when she had given in to Julius 's forceful demands , just to keep the peace . |
| 23 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 24 | There had been so many pieces of paper ; 50 million at least , someone else had told him , generated during his eight years as President . |
| 25 | It was n't worth asking of what kind ; there had been so many beginnings . |
| 26 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 27 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 28 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 29 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 30 | There had been so much blood , but … |