Example sentences of "there [vb past] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , as I said , there 'd been various answers er , to this , throughout history , one of the most interesting and significant as far as we 're concerned , in studying Freud and the social sciences , was er , that of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes . |
| 2 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 4 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 5 | Well I I think the period that embraced my school days , you see I did n't leave till nineteen nineteen and th that meant there 'd been four years of war at school and the last year well , it ended in er nineteen eighteen , the war did , so only the last year , but it was full of patriotism and all the old scholars that had er served or suffered or been killed , their names were up . |
| 6 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 7 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 8 | There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons . |
| 9 | Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about . |
| 10 | There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph . |
| 11 | No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all . |
| 12 | If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now . |
| 13 | Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it . |
| 14 | Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’ |
| 15 | Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy . |
| 16 | There 'd been Holy Communion at eight this morning , and afternoon prayers . |
| 17 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 18 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 19 | And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes . |
| 20 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 21 | Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there . |
| 22 | There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock . |
| 23 | In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest . |
| 24 | There 'd been numerous dark arched carved-wood doors leading off the hall , most of which she had still to investigate … |
| 25 | More recently , there 'd been further reappraisal of America 's bluesmeisters and U2 hauled in BB King to jointly provide a Top Ten single in ‘ When Love Comes To Town ’ , while Gary Moore charted with the aid of Albert King . |
| 26 | There had been unsuccessful attempts even further south ; the unfortunate Raleigh got himself out of the Tower by promising to find James 1 a supply of gold in Guiana , but he found no gold and he irritated the Spanish so much that they pushed James into having him executed in 1618 on the 1604 charge of treason . |
| 27 | But there had been unsuccessful sides in the past that had been packed with outstanding individuals who had not coalesced , or been moulded , into a good team . |
| 28 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 29 | Although there had been countless works already produced on the European theme , it was a subject that Gould realised would be forever popular among the amateur naturalists and bird-fanciers of Britain . |
| 30 | In statements issued on July 16 the Foreign Ministers of Egypt , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia stressed that there had been total agreement on the articles of the Damascus Declaration notwithstanding some " minor amendments " . |