Example sentences of "[vb past] been a very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm but down in the Rift Valley the Pocot people were a very different tribe , they wore leather , little tiny leather skirts and cowrie shells and nothing here , and it was very very hot , and they were a nomadic people who erm moved about with their animals but because , when I was there , there 'd been a very bad drought , they 'd had to erm just beg really for food . |
| 2 | As he rode away , Seb thought it had been a very small lie , yet it had brought an expression of joy to Melody 's face that he would never forget . |
| 3 | Although it had been a very warm day , the evening had a slight feeling of autumn : it was particularly beautiful , with the sun turning the leaves of the trees a marvellous golden colour . |
| 4 | It had been a very cruel murder . |
| 5 | It had been a very long night to pass on a tiny piece of sandwich . |
| 6 | Anyway , it had been a very long time ago , goodness gracious , it had been at least six years . |
| 7 | It had been a very hot day and this was the first heat-stroke casualty . |
| 8 | She had been a very affectionate child , climbing on Cecilia 's knee to hug her , sitting with her arm round her father and her head on his shoulder . |
| 9 | It had been a very unhappy time for him , especially since he knew that his advancing years prevented him from getting a job as a carman . |
| 10 | All she had been urged to do was relax and recover her health and spirits after what had been a very traumatic experience . |
| 11 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 12 | The S.M.O. said you had been a very good night special in Hope . |
| 13 | The nurse said I had been a very good patient . |
| 14 | Blake had been a very good agent and the KGB always looks after its own . |
| 15 | It had been a very typical contract that Mark Letterworth had contrived in outline for the sale of the turbine engines to a Moscow factory . |
| 16 | Sixth , there had been a very close bond established between the children which the justices felt very strongly should be preserved in the long term . |
| 17 | Three days after the meeting with Mackie , Hoare Govett had rung to say there had been a very substantial sale of shares through Bell Lawrie White . |
| 18 | It had been a very strange week ! |
| 19 | It had been a very different story with the earlier sell-off of the hotels where the managers ' interest had not been shown proper respect . |
| 20 | But it had been a very close-run thing . |
| 21 | In 1889 , the year before the Leeds Congress , he was offered the living of St Katherine 's Church where he had been a very popular curate . |
| 22 | She would have to repay Luke , of course , but it had been a very kind thought . |
| 23 | It had been a very unexpected meeting , she thought , and it had made her feel strangely elated . |
| 24 | There had been a very masculine intention to punish in those dark eyes and she had a good idea what the punishment would have been . |
| 25 | It had been a very hard frost , the path was very slippery , and that night was particularly cold . |
| 26 | Afterwards Tim Butler said it had been a very interesting meeting giving the local farming community the opportunity to put their points across to a senior union official . |
| 27 | Boston had been a very important port in medieval times , importing goods from the northern European ports . |
| 28 | The former agreed " that Gurney had been a very difficult person to manage and was probably the source of all the mischief " . |
| 29 | In this way , Barth distanced himself from what had been a very common tendency in much previous theology to separate off very sharply from each other ( a ) the being of God , ( b ) the triunity of God , and ( c ) the incarnation . |
| 30 | There had been a shoot-out there once , there were bullet pocks in the walls , but it had been a very brief scene , and no one had bothered to return . |