Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] many [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I finally got through to Taff to enquire about what sort of night he had had , and if there had been many casualties during the barrage , his reply was rather matter of fact . |
| 2 | Over the years there had been many tributes to her beauty and her dancing , but the one I particularly treasure appeared only recently . |
| 3 | Trevor Radway , Chairman of the Forest of Dean Railway Company Limited , said there had been many improvements in recent times , and the railway was going from strength to strength . |
| 4 | There had been many nights like this , and she had been furiously ridden before , as now , by this tireless Mighty One , face fixed in the inhuman lineaments of lust . |
| 5 | It was almost a physical pain and for a moment he felt shocked because it had been many years since the agony of losing Gerda . |
| 6 | Then the farmer admitted that there had been many applicants for the job already , but each had been driven out of the stall by the horse . |