Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 2 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 3 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 4 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 5 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 6 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 7 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 8 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 9 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 10 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 11 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 12 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 13 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 14 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 15 | Luce froze , realising how easily she 'd been lulled into a false sense of security . |
| 16 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 17 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 18 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 20 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 21 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 22 | Then , three nights later , she 'd been visited by an erotic dream that regularly haunted her . |
| 23 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 24 | ‘ I think he 'd been fascinated by the wooden leg banging on the floor . |
| 25 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 26 | ‘ Kitty told us you 'd been killed on the Western Front and that was why she ‘ ad to sell 112 . |
| 27 | She 'd been killed by an electric shock . |
| 28 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 29 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 30 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |