Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool . |
| 4 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | The jury heard he had been a friend of Lady Cross for 12 years and had no history of violence . |
| 8 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 9 | Before papa died she had been a child , spoiled and cosseted and it was a pity she had not grown up a bit more quickly . |
| 10 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've had a splendid time , ’ she replied instead , and when some minutes later a taxi whisked them back to their hotel she felt it had been a dream of an evening . |
| 12 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 13 | Asked whether he thought Mr McNeill had intended to make a racist comment , Mr Maan said that after listening to him he felt it had been an error of judgment and that Mr McNeill had not meant to offend anybody . |
| 14 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 15 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
| 16 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 17 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
| 18 | At the same time , she knew it had been a big mistake to lose her temper like that . |
| 19 | Cos I thought it 'd been a nice day we could of nipped down to Sainsbury 's |
| 20 | He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there . |
| 21 | Kenneth thought it had been a great year . |
| 22 | As he rode away , Seb thought it had been a very small lie , yet it had brought an expression of joy to Melody 's face that he would never forget . |
| 23 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |
| 24 | Thought he 'd been a bit hurt when we grabbed him . |
| 25 | They insisted it had been a step up the social ladder ; he secretly disagreed . |
| 26 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 27 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 28 | As the neighbours started to emerge later in the day , everyone agreed it had been a great San Juan . |
| 29 | Warner Brothers immediately set in motion its own research programme to explore the feasibility of the idea ; it would run for some months before anyone realised it had been an April Fool and abandoned their research . |
| 30 | Handicapper Ted Kelly admitted it had been a difficult task rating Vintage Crop . |