Example sentences of "been a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 2 | The children , however , were persistent and led the way round to the side of the building , stopping at what had probably been a small parcels office . |
| 3 | The grandstand/insurance fiddle has been a complete balls up . |
| 4 | The lobbying of America has been a curious off-the-books exercise ( see box on next page ) . |
| 5 | There appears to have been a colonnaded pronaos in front with a wide intercolumniation . |
| 6 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 7 | Coffin wondered if the inhabitants of Drake Towers , with their BMWs and Porsches , knew that the old Francis Drake Street had been a regular thieves ' kitchen . |
| 8 | The resulting film , Royal Family ( or ‘ Corgi and Beth ’ as it was nicknamed ) , in which , among other things , the Queen was shown cooking the steaks at a barbecue , was revolutionary in its revelations , and considered inside the Palace to have been a public relations triumph . |
| 9 | You 've been walkies today darling ah , you 've been a little walkies today oh , oh , oh , oh |
| 10 | Since November 1990 he has been a special projects engineer . |
| 11 | No , I do n't boil onions , I 'm not , I 've never been a big onions chap . |
| 12 | The latter hurt Israel far more than the Arab states because France had long been an important arms supplier to Israel . |