Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |
| 2 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 3 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 4 | In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine . |
| 5 | She must have been quite a joker with that bantam on her head , pigeons fluttering noisily on her shoulders ; it had all been wonderful outdoor fun . |
| 6 | She turned her attention to the room , which had obviously been three smaller rooms at one time . |
| 7 | There had nevertheless been some significant overproduction against individual country quotas , apparently mainly by Iran ( an estimated 3,400,000 bpd against a quota of 3,184,000 ) and Kuwait ( whose 812,000 bpd quota reflected artificially low output levels in the aftermath of the destruction of production facilities in the Gulf War ) . |
| 8 | There had already been one heated exchange between herself and the school managers , when Outram had pointedly refused to apologize for introducing controversial subjects . |
| 9 | The trip had also offered temporary escape from her mother 's pointed reminiscences that when she was Polly 's age she had already been married two years and was preparing for the birth of her first child . |
| 10 | There had not been such severe storms in southern England for hundreds of years , and the structure of woodlands had not been so regularly modified by gales as in the more stormy north of Britain . |
| 11 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 12 | No wonder her father had not been well these last few weeks , he was worried about money . |
| 13 | Father must be in his sixties now , and had not been well this winter . |
| 14 | Before she could think how to respond without sounding defensive he was saying : ‘ You are angry with yourself , remorseful because if you had not been late this thing would never have happened . |
| 15 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 16 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 17 | We were much better ‘ staffed ’ this time so I think we were more efficient and our pilfering/loss rate which I felt had not been bad last time was down to only two items this time , even better . |
| 18 | Tolonen had not been wrong all those years ago when he had recognised this in Karr . |
| 19 | He was going to have to admit he loved her and could n't live without her , and that was a hard thing for a man who had always been one hundred per cent in control , and who had always been one hundred per cent independent , and one hundred per cent rational , to do . |
| 20 | He was going to have to admit he loved her and could n't live without her , and that was a hard thing for a man who had always been one hundred per cent in control , and who had always been one hundred per cent independent , and one hundred per cent rational , to do . |
| 21 | I had always been lucky that way . |
| 22 | Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life . |
| 23 | Mechanization had always been difficult due to the dominance of wet-rice production and the small scale of cultivation , but from the early 1960s new forms of mechanization adapted to the conditions of Japanese agriculture were developed . |
| 24 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |
| 25 | And so , black with anger , hot for revenge , the nine hundred invaders , who had once been eleven hundred , marched , sword in hand , towards Scone . |
| 26 | The petal was faded now but it had once been bright pink . |
| 27 | But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ . |
| 28 | It had n't been all that friendly to me , but I let that pass . |
| 29 | My sausages had n't been all that satisfying , and I was feeling hungry again . |
| 30 | At first , Mrs Caswell had n't been all that keen , probably because she did n't want anybody dying on the premises . |