Example sentences of "have been [num] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could it have been one of these specimens that succumbed to the examining blade of the paleopathologist 's knife ? |
| 2 | I could have been one of those prophets who foretold him . |
| 3 | It must have been one of those men Angy sketched … the one she was talking about packing up . |
| 4 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 5 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 6 | Nordhausen had been one of these places . |
| 7 | It had been one of those mornings when the early sun striking the coloured glass of the landing window had tinted the dark hall with amber light . |
| 8 | It had been one of those days . |
| 9 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 10 | Aunt Nessy had been one of those children who , in the days of large families , had been given away to elderly childless relatives to be brought up as a kind of maid-of-all-work and as an insurance against old age ; and what had upset her most when the parting came was having to leave her youngest sister , Beatrice , on whom she had lavished the mother-love within her — birthright of the children she was destined never to conceive . |
| 11 | Frankie had been one of those unfortunates . |
| 12 | Bridget had been one of those teenagers who work all through their school holidays in restaurants or in shops or cleaning houses and she always had cash . |
| 13 | It had been one of those suggestions that stuns everyone with its rightness . |
| 14 | Norton 's Coin , who had been 200–1 with some bookmakers that morning , started at 100–1 having opened in the course betting at 66–1 . |
| 15 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's been one of those days , has n't it , Robyn ? ’ he murmured evenly . |