Example sentences of "[vb past] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had wooed her with hunger tempered with tenderness , lifting her to heights of fulfilment she could never have even imagined before she had met him , and she 'd been a willing , eager vessel , wreaking her woman 's power over him , submitting joyfully to his possession until in the final moment of consummation she had robbed him of his strength , leaving him as helpless as Samson shorn of his crowning glory . |
| 32 | If he 'd been a Sikh it might have been different . |
| 33 | There 'd been a beautiful poster in the early 1970s showing a pregnant woman in a flowing dress and headed ‘ WOMAN POWER ’ . |
| 34 | Existence had battered him , he said , remaining where he was , seeming not to have heard her : there 'd been a different child once . |
| 35 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 36 | He 'd been a social worker , then a deputy director of social services — he 'd been fired after the famous ‘ babyswap ’ scandal , but that was how he came to be taken up by FAMILY . |
| 37 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 38 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 41 | Really sad case , that , because he 'd been a fine man . |
| 42 | Her mum would never had done anything so untidy or indiscreet , and she 'd been a Tory all her life . |
| 43 | He 'd been a hard man to work for , but he taught Billy everything he knew about that garden and how to take care of it . |
| 44 | He was n't getting any younger , after all , and he 'd been a hard worker all his life . |
| 45 | He spoke very warmly of his parents , but I felt that he 'd been a lonely child . |
| 46 | If it was obvious that there 'd been a false declaration . |
| 47 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
| 48 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 49 | There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 51 | ‘ 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 54 | He had n't looked after her properly , he 'd been a bad father . |
| 55 | And they 'd been they 'd been a dead lo they were a dead loss were n't they ? |
| 56 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 57 | Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes . |
| 58 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 59 | He 'd been a pharmaceutical salesman , mad keen on amateur dramatics . |
| 60 | ‘ I 'd been an assistant stage manager and a deputy stage manager at the Northcott Theatre , Exeter , before I went to drama school . |