Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] been [art] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since we met I 've been the target for veiled accusations and suspicions !
2 But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy .
3 In most of the areas in which riots occurred there had been a breakdown in community/police relations ; the public distrusted the police and they had no confidence in the police complaints machinery .
4 Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men .
5 They found there had been no unjustifiable delay and said time had been needed to assemble evidence .
6 He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War .
7 She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion .
8 Even after his arrest opinion surveys suggested that Barry retained considerable support and that many of his constituents believed him to have been the victim of a vindictive campaign of persecution by the federal authorities .
9 He was to pay tribute to Kingsmill after his death in an exchange of letters with Malcolm Muggeridge , published as About Kingsmill ( 1951 ) , and recalled what had been the deepest friendship of his life between the lines of Johnson and Boswell ( 1958 ) , the last book written at the height of his powers .
10 Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community .
11 She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool .
12 Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool .
13 And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow .
14 But Mr Bowman said Home Office figures showed there had been a 43 per cent reduction in crime by under-14s .
15 The broadcast , which featured Mr Hurd , Foreign Secretary , and Mr Heseltine , Environment Secretary , acknowledged there had been a recession which had caused pain for some people .
16 From 1971 to 1977 he was the head coach of the Washington Redskins professional football team , and turned what had been a lacklustre bunch into a city 's obsession .
17 On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide .
18 The events between the formation of the first National Government and the general election , however , turned what had been an incipient three-party system into an unbalanced two-party system in which the Conservatives , reinforced by defectors from the Liberal and Labour parties , the Liberal Nationals , and National Labour party , were the obvious beneficiaries .
19 ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life !
20 The injuries indicated she had been the victim of a sustained attack .
21 Not entirely to my surprise , I discovered there had been a frenzy of activity in my absence , and number four hundred and fifteen had come and gone .
22 Since you signed it 's been a little bit up and down , some goals conceded , not necessarily down to you , so you must be pleased that things have settled down a bit ?
23 The jury heard he had been a friend of Lady Cross for 12 years and had no history of violence .
24 Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ .
25 Goff and another , the National Industrial Relations Court ruled there had been a constructive dismissal .
26 But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake .
27 But as he cut into one using a power saw , an alarm sounded , and he realised there 'd been a leak of radioactive tritium gas .
28 All of a sudden , she realised there had been a collective intake of breath and that everyone around her was staring at the monitors .
29 Later he admitted there had been a misinterpretation about the exchange .
30 The SPD accordingly took over Lower Saxony 's five seats in the Bundesrat ( upper house of the federal parliament ) to have a total of 27 seats , with the result that the government CDU-Christian Social Union ( CSU ) -Free Democratic Party ( FDP ) coalition , now with 18 seats , lost what had been a one-seat majority .
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