Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Tax and bill collectors faced more practical confusion , not only with a ‘ re-timed ’ calendar but because it had also been decided to start the legal year on January 1 instead of March 25 , which had been New Year 's Day since the twelfth century . |
| 32 | Even as she said it she recalled the growing doubts and disgust which had been another spur driving her to accept Clive 's invitation . |
| 33 | The plate from which he had eaten his hamburgers and frozen green beans , which had been last night 's supper , still unrinsed in the sink ; the splatter of grease marks above the ancient gas stove ; the viscous mess of grime gumming the narrow gap between stove and cupboard ; the soiled and smelly teacloth hanging from its hook at the side of the sink ; last year 's calendar askew on its nail ; the two open shelves jammed with a conglomeration of half-used cereal packets , jars of stale jam , cracked mugs , packets of detergent ; the cheap , unstable table with its two chairs , their backs grubby from numerous clutching hands ; the linoleum curving at the wall where it had become unstuck ; the general air of discomfort , uncaring , negligence , dirt . |
| 34 | The result — a rather higher rate of completion of power stations and higher spending four or five years later in the mid-1950s — was welcomed by the Electricity Division , but it annoyed the Treasury and caused political embarrassment for the Government ( which had been promising restraint in the public sector ) . |
| 35 | Most of these developments have bypassed the work of the established Rape Crisis Lines , which have been developing expertise in the counselling of women who have suffered sexual assault . |
| 36 | off Tottenham Court Road , west London , one of ‘ the numerous streets which have been devoted time out of mind to professional people , dispensaries and boarding-houses ’ . |
| 37 | Spink , who has been first choice since regaining the No 1 spot from Les Sealey in March , said : ‘ There was a time when my future seemed in jeopardy but things have turned my way again . ’ |
| 38 | Allan Victor Jones , 51 , of Bangor , who has been chief fire officer of Gwynedd since 1989 is awarded the Queen 's Fire Service Medal . |
| 39 | Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers . |
| 40 | who has been Senior Development Officer responsible for the Central Support Unit and co-ordinating the Advanced Courses Development Programme , is undertaking an evaluation of the programme and will be in contact with selected centres in due course . |
| 41 | AFTER a total of 36 years ' service in the nuclear industry — during which she has been personal secretary to no fewer than three chairmen — Dorothy Ashurst has retired . |
| 42 | For some time she has been head dancer of a troupe and has travelled extensively abroad , taking part in cabaret on land and aboard cruise ships . |
| 43 | She has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Fribourg , Switzerland ; Natal , South Africa ; and La Trobe , Melbourne . |
| 44 | God knows where she 'd been last night . ’ |
| 45 | While declaring undying love for me she 'd been busy making herself a small fortune giving kiss-and-tell interviews to some tabloid rag . ’ |
| 46 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 47 | You 've been right patient , ’ Aunt Sarah said . |
| 48 | No , you 've been naughty turn it off mum |
| 49 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 50 | This time she announced it was n't Mrs Brown 's four calling birds three French hens two turtle doves and a partridge in a pear tree she had been five gold rings . |
| 51 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 52 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 53 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 54 | She had been second housemaid at Chesney Hall and Arthur Naulls had been under-gardener . |
| 55 | She had been smoking dope now for the last year , scoring whenever she had saved up enough money from her weekend job at McDonald 's . |
| 56 | She had immediately closed her mind to all thought , not even realising how tightly she had been gripping fitzAlan 's hand . |
| 57 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 58 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 59 | For Soho was where she had been last evening , wondering what to do and where to go to fill the time ; there , in Shaftesbury Avenue , she had seen Lucinda and the airmen . |
| 60 | Ali Aref Bourhan , the Afar politician who had been Chief Minister of the territory before independence in 1977 , was on July 12 sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment along with eight other people similarly convicted of plotting to overthrow the government [ for arrests following January 1991 coup attempt see p. 37946 ; for October 1991 hunger strike see p. 38565 ] . |