Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they had some kind of masonic understanding , they 'd all been through the same initiation . |
| 2 | It would have made her task easier if he 'd still been in the bitter , brutal mood that had possessed him after William Ash had delivered his ultimatum , but she did n't understand him at present . |
| 3 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 4 | She 'd even been on the local TV news for it and it had done wonders for business . |
| 5 | " I 'd never been near the Chief Rabbit before . |
| 6 | He 'd actually been on the receiving end of recalling them . |
| 7 | They did not pause on her arrival , though Alix , ever polite , waved obliquely to welcome her back : watching them , it occurred to Liz that perhaps in all the years they had all known one another , this was one of the very few occasions on which they had all been in the same room . |
| 8 | Fran had only been to the luxurious floating restaurant a couple of times , but knew from experience that the food was excellent and very expensive . |
| 9 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 10 | While on furlough in England my thoughts had naturally been on the new tasks ahead . |
| 11 | As the royal party came through the school gates , however , an entire youth brass orchestra , who again had obviously been at the ready for several hours on a cold wintry day , burst into life in the playground . |
| 12 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 13 | If it had not been for the horrific blunder by their goalkeeper at Ibrox , Howard Wilkinson 's men would go into Battle of Britain II at Elland Road seeking merely to confirm the superiority of the English domestic game over the Scottish . |
| 14 | If it had not been for the extraordinary resilience of Hitler 's Wehrmacht and the fortitude of the German people , it would have done so . |
| 15 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 17 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 18 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 19 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 20 | Floy thought he would have rather enjoyed this journey if it had not been for the nagging concern about Fenella , left behind in the giants ' hands . |
| 21 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 22 | It seemed that Britain was wealthy enough for some redistribution to be possible , as , arguably , it had not been in the 1830s , and that voluntary effort had achieved little in this respect . |
| 23 | ‘ Those who had not been in the banqueting hall banded together and created an Emergency Council . ’ |
| 24 | On June 23 Yilmaz announced a new Cabinet ; of the 30 ministers 19 had not been in the previous Cabinet . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , it seems fair to say that by the 1530s social grievances were again being voiced to an extent that they had not been in the previous century . |
| 26 | Finding a lone man amid open ocean is doubtful at the best of times , and we had just been through the densest fog bank either one of us had ever experienced . |
| 27 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 28 | And when Jessamy had tried to speak to Julius at his office , Eleanor had always been on the other end of the phone , trotting out some barely plausible excuse why Julius could n't talk to her . |
| 29 | Stephanie had always been on the heavy side for her 5 ft 4 ins ( 1.6m ) frame . |
| 30 | The particular premises that Let It Rock occupied had always been in the very vanguard of London fashion trends but working there was n't as much of a shock as I thought it was going to be at first . |