Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 3 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 4 | He 'd been a bit scared of her before , but he was even more so now she was acting as if she was n't right in the head . |
| 5 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 6 | When Gloria complained , there 'd been a tiff and they 'd had to leave . |
| 7 | He 'd been a little too theatrically technical . |
| 8 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 9 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 10 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 11 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 12 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 13 | I have tried therapy ( male ) which was unsympathetic to say the least ; if I 'd been a ‘ good little Jewish girl ’ , and ( later ) the type of young woman that would make ‘ an ideal bride ’ I would have been ‘ happy ’ . |
| 14 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 15 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 16 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 17 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 18 | I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways . |
| 19 | She told me she was sorry we were going , and we 'd been a credit to the school . |
| 20 | There 'd been a ceremony called ban pasāi , the entering of the forest . |
| 21 | But in times gone by , there 'd been a feast at ban pasāi ; the women had brought rice and huge copper pans to the forest . |
| 22 | There 'd been a frost in the night , but now in the mid-afternoon the sun on our backs was strong and warm . |
| 23 | Thought he 'd been a bit hurt when we grabbed him . |
| 24 | There 'd been a thing about it in the paper . |
| 25 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
| 26 | Charlie rarely saw his own father when he 'd been a patient and sad character living with his mother . |
| 27 | He 'd been a bit funny , quiet-like , ever since they 'd arrived at Thorsbury Manor . |
| 28 | So he called me up and asked me if I wanted to play it , which was incredibly flattering because I 'd been a fan of his for such a long time . |
| 29 | She 'd been a disaster and let Ricky down . |
| 30 | Back at the start of March there 'd been a shake . |