Example sentences of "it [verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there it has been downhill all the way . |
| 2 | In fact , Black South African writers are committed in trying to rewrite our history , our true history , because it has been so much misrepresented and twisted , and used against the people themselves . |
| 3 | Well , you never go in an unrealistic influencing situation , and er , the other one would have said , well , we 've had situations where it has been very much a line type decision . |
| 4 | D' ya know I think , I think , I think it has been out this year . |
| 5 | He 'd admitted he owned the Mercedes , but it had been exactly that … an admission , rather than a revelation . |
| 6 | It had been exactly that — a dream . |
| 7 | From that point onward , it had been downhill all the way . |
| 8 | It had been there all the time hidden beneath the forced gaiety , the conversational duelling . |
| 9 | That was how she 'd done it — she 'd touched them with her warm love and it had been too much for the Worm 's heart of hatred . |
| 10 | But it had been too much for Gurder . |
| 11 | It had been too much even for their savage canine courage to take . |
| 12 | To judge by the photographs , on this occasion it had been as many as twenty . |
| 13 | than if it had been so much inert luggage . |
| 14 | She wanted life to be like it had been earlier that evening . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been here all afternoon , ’ the lay brother murmured , handing him a thin roll of vellum . |
| 16 | It 's been too much for him , too great a burden . |
| 17 | He 's been home at , it 's been about half past six evening . |
| 18 | Since then it 's been almost all downhill with another four defeats in his next five fights , three inside the distance . |
| 19 | It 's been now some eighteen month , two years . |