Example sentences of "[vb past] been a small " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If you had been a small shopkeeper with some money why might you have done the same ? |
| 4 | What had been a small dark circle was a larger dark circle , with just a suspicion of smoke or steam around its edges . |
| 5 | The Windorah had been a small family hotel before Jenkins bought it seven years earlier . |
| 6 | There had been a small number of ‘ slum clearance tenements ’ built in 1924 , but there was major slum clearances in North Shields in the 1930s after the Greenwood Act , when the banksides were almost totally cleared and some 9000 people were moved out , the bulk of them to the Meadowell Estate where 1961 dwellings were built , of which 84% were flats . |
| 7 | Fortunately , it had been a small iceberg , as icebergs go . |
| 8 | The burial had been a small affair . |
| 9 | He held her against him , nursing her as though she had been a small child , while looking down into her face . |
| 10 | Britain 's initial strategy had been a smaller version of the comprehensive US and USSR space programmes . |