Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 2 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 3 | Maxim wondered why he was n't more shocked at the instinctive distrust implied by that decision , and sighed as he realised it was because he 'd been nearly six months in the atmosphere of Whitehall . |
| 4 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 5 | He was really annoyed , he 'd been there twelve years |
| 6 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 7 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 8 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 9 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 10 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 11 | The Manageress there erm I was there and she , I , after I 'd been there eighteen months , she had a heart attack and the girl took up her tea tray , one of the girls took up her , because she was n't on duty till about just quarter to six to do the money . |
| 12 | You 've been there quite a whi well yes you 'd been there seven years when you gave up had n't you ? |
| 13 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 14 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 15 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 16 | I 'd been so good sea sick . |
| 17 | I do n't think it 'd been very lucrative work with the amount of time he took to it . |
| 18 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 19 | She 'd been under medical care . ’ |
| 20 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 21 | Christopher Knox , defending , said O'Brian had been just 100 yards from where nine men were killed in the Gulf War friendly fire blunder . |
| 22 | It was the third time in eight games that the margin of victory had been just two runs . |
| 23 | And that had been just two years ago . |
| 24 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 25 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 26 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 27 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 28 | Although six per cent said they had , half said the difficulty had been over five years ago . |
| 29 | At the Jan. 8 round table meeting Peter Koch , who was responsible for disbanding the National Security Office ( and was subsequently dismissed on Jan. 12 ) , revealed that there had been over 85,000 Stasi employees , 25,000 of whom had already been dismissed ; all weapons would be impounded by the end of January . |
| 30 | Tony Harrison recounts a story about a meeting which is likely to become apocryphal : ‘ There had been over ten accidents in a year on one particular plant and a meeting was held to consider targets for the next year . |