Example sentences of "there [vb past] been a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been a slight brush with Gallaghers car which was going in excess of 40 mph . |
| 2 | so in all purp in , in always , the fact that you 'd come into this house made one realize that there 'd been a distinct change in one 's circumstances . |
| 3 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 4 | Right so after nineteen forty five there cer there certainly would have been a momentum towards this in the areas where there 'd been a strong Japanese presence because there would be more collaborators and there would be some more obvious targets . |
| 5 | He just said there 'd been a terrible misunderstanding , and you would n't listen when he tried to explain . ’ |
| 6 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 7 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 8 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 9 | If it was obvious that there 'd been a false declaration . |
| 10 | Existence had battered him , he said , remaining where he was , seeming not to have heard her : there 'd been a different child once . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 12 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 13 | There 'd been a big square of white cloth amongst them , which a group of nomes had managed to tie around the human 's mouth after its mooing got on everyone 's nerves . |
| 14 | There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’ |
| 15 | There 'd been a whole day 's racing at Goodwood , two afternoons at Wimbledon for the semi-finals and finals , the Eton and Harrow cricket match , a day at Henley and invitations to lunch and dinner parties , the theatre , the opera and then on to one of the nightclubs . |
| 16 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
| 17 | There 'd been a beautiful poster in the early 1970s showing a pregnant woman in a flowing dress and headed ‘ WOMAN POWER ’ . |
| 18 | There 'd been an uneasy truce , a kind of businesslike friendliness while the matter of the fair at the Palazzo Parisio was handled and finalised . |
| 19 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 20 | Unless there had been a general exodus of small proprietors , a good deal of land had been acquired by outsiders , possibly with a view to letting it to graziers . |
| 21 | Yet , despite Mrs Thatcher 's resolutely ‘ gung-ho ’ attitude , it was increasingly clear that there had been a general shift in Britain 's stance on Iran and the whole of the Middle East . |
| 22 | There had been a low haze hiding most of the surrounding hills , the loch had seemed suspended in some floating mirage , broken only by the oars rattling , and the water that slopped in the bottom of the boat . |
| 23 | There had been a slight uncertainty about her . |
| 24 | Data collected form this union in 1987 , 1988 and 1989 suggested that there had been a slight improvement in the usage rate of the lobon-gur solution compared with the unions studied in the 1984 Community Household Survey . |
| 25 | By noon on the same day , it is hue , the Government had accepted that there had been a slight set-back and that the European Communities Bill would have to be put temporarily on ice , but almost immediately they conceived and put into place a new plan . |
| 26 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 27 | Initially there had been a substantial market for British films in the US , where demand remained for some time ahead of the production levels achieved by American filmmakers . |
| 28 | The Court of Appeal said that there had been a jurisdictional error . |
| 29 | There had been a long struggle . |
| 30 | There had been a long list of such casualties in Libby 's life , this was just another . |