Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [verb] a few [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So your ideal system would have been to have a few strategic Cabinet committees beneath the Cabinet that would have done all the most controversial business ? |
| 2 | The last time he had prayed he appeared to have been granted a few more minutes before termination . |
| 3 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 4 | Although Bernice had been dealt a few rough cards in her life , she still thought that there could be something better . |
| 5 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |