Example sentences of "[vb past] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been a successful amateur boxer before he joined Plummer 's organisation . |
| 2 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 3 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 4 | I remember in eighty four erm there 'd been a general election in eighty three erm there 'd been one third elections in Harlow in , in , in erm i i i in eighty three , there was er a gen the general election and another system of election by thirds in eighty four and then the European election being told by one el elderly lady that there were too many bleeding elections and therefore she was n't gon na vote . |
| 5 | There 'd been a slight brush with Gallaghers car which was going in excess of 40 mph . |
| 6 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 7 | Well I think everybody would , that had had their privacy erupted like they had been because they 'd been a small community for well through the years you see and for strangers to come in , I think it applies in every place that you go to , new places , you know that are built up after it just being a little country village people do resent you but I think now that they , they are really erm accepting us for the fact that we have brought things that they would never have had had the new town not been er sta , you know started here . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He 'd been a Labour Party member too . |
| 10 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
| 11 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
| 12 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 13 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 14 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He just said there 'd been a terrible misunderstanding , and you would n't listen when he tried to explain . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 19 | He 'd been a uniformed inspector with the Soho Unit for nearly three years , and was probably due for a move ; no sign of it yet , but there was most likely a memo waiting deep in the machinery , easing its way out at the speed of a splinter . |
| 20 | She had loved him while hating him , had loved him when he 'd been a perfect swine . |
| 21 | In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When she 'd first qualified in forensic medicine he 'd been a young sergeant . |
| 24 | She 'd even felt the odd pang of nostalgia for the old days when she 'd been a young wet-behind-the-ears singer , just beginning to make her way up the ladder . |
| 25 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Given that he had half frightened her to death to begin with , he 'd been a gentle lover too , she recalled , a tender smile playing around her mouth . |
| 28 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 29 | As to his feelings for Madeleine , nurtured since he 'd been a little boy , even were they to be revived , it seemed unlikely Madeleine would respond to him . |
| 30 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |