Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 2 | He 'd been sure Joe was dead when they left him . |
| 3 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 4 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 5 | Now , as I said , there 'd been various answers er , to this , throughout history , one of the most interesting and significant as far as we 're concerned , in studying Freud and the social sciences , was er , that of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes . |
| 6 | There 'd been pink wine , Rose Anjou 1969 on the label , celebrating the completion of the first half of his father 's book on the shore lark . |
| 7 | There 'd been numerous dark arched carved-wood doors leading off the hall , most of which she had still to investigate … |
| 8 | She 'd been surprised Carol had offered to ice it , for Carol had never been domesticated . |
| 9 | yeah I know , actually if it 'd been different equipment I would have cancelled it and said oh sod it , but it 's not , it 's same equipment , so you might as well wait for it |
| 10 | And poems in a novel simply did n't work ; they 'd been crap poems anyway . |
| 11 | There 'd been Holy Communion at eight this morning , and afternoon prayers . |
| 12 | SHe 'd been entertaining Nathan in Tammuz 's office , messing with the computer . |
| 13 | I 'd been half-hoping Vecchi might show before I sent Laura Channing out to what might develop into target-practice . |
| 14 | They 'd been minor royalty in some petty , pre-Independence kingdom . |
| 15 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 16 | There had been black bitterness , and there had been a great aching void for longer than she cared to remember now . |
| 17 | There had been certain problems with the agency concerned due to political pressure . |
| 18 | He had been thirty-two in 1970 ; there had been certain events that were crucial to his life . |
| 19 | I read throughout the night , glancing at the bed from where , earlier the same day , I had been certain Francis was watching me . |
| 20 | If these had been real Tag Heuer watches they 'd have been worth thousands , but in fact at around 25 pounds each they 're a rip-off . |
| 21 | The Taylor report found some responsibility for the tragedy lay with the stadium 's management , some with the fans and some with the South Yorkshire police , and suggested that senior officers had been dubious witnesses . |
| 22 | It had been utter surprise and defeat , casualties grievous . |
| 23 | Defying the need to slump her head dejectedly on to her arms , to howl long and hard that every minute of this evening had been utter hell and that all she wanted now was to curl up safe and warm in her own bed . |
| 24 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |
| 25 | For goods , there had been tariff-free trade in manufactures since 1972 , but non-tariff barriers would now be removed . |
| 26 | She had been fiery Sally-Anne still , and then fiery McAllister , and a few moments ' loving from a man she loved had undone her , had brought her not joy , but a trauma of the remembered pain and anguish which Havvie had inflicted on her . |
| 27 | And the Princess Joanna 's marriage to David Stewart was to be declared null and void , since both had been mere infants at its celebration , and the princess free to marry whomsoever her royal brother selected , Balliol himself being glad and privileged to wed her if this was his Lord Edward 's will and choice . |
| 28 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 29 | There had been genuine fear on some of those people 's faces when she had mentioned Martin 's name , a fear she could appreciate after what had happened to her last night , but it had n't shaken her determination to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 30 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |