Example sentences of "been [adj] [to-vb] [pron] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |
| 2 | She had been lucky to see it in Vogue and to find it available in Harrods . |
| 3 | He said he had been unable to take it in moderation , and then , in a long illness , he was forbidden liquor , so when the habit had been broken he never returned to it . |
| 4 | Their daughter had provided all the labour-saving devices : dishwasher , washing machine , spin-dryer , all housed in a disused still room near the back door , although until she came the Copleys had been reluctant to use them in case they could n't turn them off , visualizing the machines whirling away all night , overheating , blowing up , the whole rectory pulsating with an uncontrollable power . |
| 5 | He is a very nice horse but we have not been able to test him in Dubai , ’ said Conway . |
| 6 | Perhaps the headmaster had been able to reassure her in ways that were not open to Robert . |
| 7 | So far , we 've been able to keep him in check . |