Example sentences of "[vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated . |
| 2 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 3 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 4 | Else says a shiver went up 'er spine , and she knew she 'ad been called . ’ |
| 5 | But that 's probably what 'e would 've acted like if it 'ad been 'im , y'know ? ’ |
| 6 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |
| 7 | Its completely out of character for Rocky to have said this … probably some 3rd rate hack cornered him just after he 'd learnt hed been dropped . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 9 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 10 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 11 | I 'd been trying to get into training since I was fourteen . |
| 12 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 13 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows . |
| 15 | ‘ There 'd been two heads on those pillows , ’ agreed Ethel , ‘ and two bodies between those sheets , however hard they tried to disguise it . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The gentleman who 'd been in with her would naturally have gone back to his room well before people started stirring . ’ |
| 17 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 18 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 19 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 20 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 21 | Honestly , girl , if you only knew where I 'd been to try and find you ! ’ |
| 22 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 23 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 24 | She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over . |
| 25 | Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom . |
| 26 | But whenever she 'd been free to emigrate , she 'd fallen in love and put it out of the question . |
| 27 | In fact , the day before the I Love Lucy St Patrick 's Day , she 'd been told of a good job with the British Council in the Gilbert Islands . |
| 28 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 29 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 30 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |