Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 2 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 3 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 4 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 5 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 6 | Raising the £6.5 million , ‘ the largest sum ever attracted by a radical project in Britain' according to the publicity blurb , had been either a heroic achievement by selfless , dedicated humanitarians or the blag of the century . |
| 7 | She had told him how Karen had gone half stupid over Mallachy , when it had been just a one-night stand , a one-night stand that did not , in the event , come off . |
| 8 | At first , like her many other activities , the home maintenance course at the Adult Education Centre had been just a desperate device to take her away from the boredom of George . |
| 9 | At that time the settlement of Cape Town , which had been just a small staging post on the voyage between the Netherlands and the East Indies , was beginning to grow , but although the English had occupied the Cape in 1806 , the white population remained mainly Dutch until the arrival of many new settlers from Britain in 1820 . |
| 10 | But it had been just a momentary longing for something she seemed destined never to have . |
| 11 | Aisha had been both a tribal companion to the Sheikha and a ‘ nanny ’ to her children . |
| 12 | On April 25 this reported that the security forces were to blame for provoking violence from what had been previously a peaceful crowd by making baton charges . |
| 13 | Belmodes had been around a long time . |
| 14 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 15 | There was a tendency for the highly born to be preferred to the prince bishoprics of Germany ; and in the tenth and early eleventh centuries training to knightly pursuits had been almost a necessary qualification for a successful German bishop . |
| 16 | Merseyside or Tyneside there had been almost a general deindustrialization . |
| 17 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 18 | Tamar sat and talked quietly , telling her Uncle about her life and about Victoria , who had been only a small child when he had last seen her . |
| 19 | But there had been only a small decrease in mental hospital beds and little sign of a significant shift to different forms of care . |
| 20 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 21 | She stared out of the upstairs living-room window , at the place where his Jaguar had been only a few moments before . |
| 22 | Ensign Piper had been only a short time in Australia when he volunteered for duty in the convict settlement on Norfolk Island . |
| 23 | This was the lake that we were going to spend our time on and although these lakes had n't been fished much we did have the benefit of some information given to us by Joe Taylor who had been out a few weeks prior to us . |
| 24 | Though she had been quite a successful model herself Arlene had never reached those giddy heights — the thought that now a pupil and protégé of hers might achieve it made her prickle with excitement . |
| 25 | It had been quite a good summer in some ways . |
| 26 | Yet one can not escape the feeling that if Humanae Vitae had been essentially a reasoned condemnation of abortion , the witness of the Church would have been all the more powerful . |
| 27 | From the look of the pile of branches , Travis had been back a few times , but he was absent still as she added her load to the mound . |
| 28 | An example I quote is of two particular members of staff who had been there a long time , and so , when I walked into the staff room , they were in the same seats . |
| 29 | I I ca n't comment on on comments that you are referencing , however I will say that in Maryland er we displaced an incumbent vendor who had been there a long time , er that vendor was a bit upset as you might imagine with being displaced as a vendor , and in Maryland we had a situation that kind of evolved into the same kind of political row you would expect when a company loses a long time business . |
| 30 | She had been there a few times throughout the week but Busacher frequently forgot her . |