Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] a few [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
2 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
3 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
6 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
7 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
8 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
9 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
10 | Her loose silk smock had been raised , while the elastic waistband of her matching trousers had been lowered a few inches so that her pale abdomen , not yet beginning to swell with the new life inside her , was ready to be smeared lightly with the gel that would facilitate the task of finding the tiny heartbeat . |
11 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
12 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
13 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
17 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
18 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
19 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
20 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |