Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There always had been ambivalent feelings between father and oldest son . |
| 2 | Killy had been triple gold medallist four years previously at Grenoble . |
| 3 | This line effectively opened up the southern reaches of West Ham which until then had been deserted marshland , and focused attention on Stratford as a centre of railway activity . |
| 4 | Only last Friday there had been great excitement over Janice 's eighth birthday party . |
| 5 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
| 6 | During the wars themselves there had been considerable disruption , but by 1785 trade had fully recovered . |
| 7 | In days gone by there had been little differences between the members of the party on the war policy , but the war was now over and they wanted to unite all their forces … |
| 8 | In his judgement , the Lord Chancellor said , ‘ I am seldom called upon to decide in a case in which I felt so strongly that on one side or the other there had been abominable wickedness . ’ |
| 9 | The Zoo lay under a bitter stormy sky , the bars of the cages seeming even more black against it than they were and the leafless trees more bleak There had been thick snow the previous week , the final throes of winter , and then it had thawed leaving dampness and mud everywhere . |