Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [verb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 2 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 3 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 4 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 5 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 6 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 7 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |