Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I have n't got space now , but here you 'd have a millionth , six noughts that 'd been a million . |
| 2 | God , that had been a powerful shit . |
| 3 | He had not had a woman for weeks — not since that last trip to the Wilds — and that had been a sing-song girl , all artifice and expertise . |
| 4 | MacDonald also had condemned the Lloyd George coalition as corrupt and unprincipled and had been a major beneficiary of its fall . |
| 5 | He was the younger brother of Lajos ' father , and had been a successful export — a businessman who owned a factory . |
| 6 | The owl had been cold and slow and had been a poor meal for the wolf . |
| 7 | He played in every position in the Bangor back-line and had been a regular member of the Ulster squad that swept the boards in the inter-provincial championships in the last nine years . |
| 8 | In Rhodri 's cast-off clothes and worn shoes he looked like a penurious wandering scrivener of sixty ; in truth he was barely forty , and had been a tall , strong man of his hands once , and would be as good again after a month of eating regularly , and nursing his frayed body and broken and blistered feet . |
| 9 | She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had been a devoted parent and strict catholic all her life . |
| 10 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |
| 11 | Mario Solórzano was secretary-general of the Social Democratic Party ( PSD ) and had been a presidential candidate in 1985 . |
| 12 | He had grown up in the slums of Harlem and had been a promising middleweight fighter in the late fifties before the lure of alcohol had devastated his career . |
| 13 | 11 And saw heaven opened , and a certain vessel descending unto him , as if had been a great sheet knit at the four comers , and let down to the earth . |
| 14 | He had won the Dewhurst Stakes by six lengths as a two-year-old but had been a 33–1 chance for the Derby in the spring of 1953 until an impressive victory in the Newmarket Stakes brought his odds down to 8–1 . |
| 15 | It was an old sofa , but had been a good one in its day , made of soft leather which had worn to a comfortable softness . |