Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 4 | Colleagues , who 've been paying tribute to his dedication and exertise , say he 'd always been aware of the dangers surrounding his work.Ian Maclaren reports . |
| 5 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 6 | This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in . |
| 7 | But now she admitted that she 'd simply been unaffected by them . |
| 8 | Until the 1982 health service dispute , she 'd never been involved in a trade union , nor had she ever gone to any meetings about anything . |
| 9 | I 'd never been involved in before as an Area Housing Officer , and just involved with day to day management , but with it being a clearance area it 's a totally different approach , and the sort of things that you deal with are totally different as well . |
| 10 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 11 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 12 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 13 | Local elections confirmed the trend and their historian has interpreted them as showing that " by 1913 , the Conservatives had rarely been stronger in the Councils of the land , or indeed more poised for success in the forthcoming general election " . |
| 14 | Paul wondered if he had perhaps been remiss in his lectures with all that had happened ; but it was not that , as it turned out . |
| 15 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 16 | His father 's brother , Gloucester had hitherto been loyal to a fault . |
| 17 | Half-built houses had hitherto been exempt from local taxes and the country was full of new ‘ housing developments ’ , which amounted to little more than forests of concrete stumps and rusty struts and braces . |
| 18 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 19 | He pointed out my Marvin as being a prototype he had made in 1964 , and said how the beech neck on my model was later fitted with a trim , and how the position of the 3-way selector switch was altered from vertical to horizontal following a request from Hank himself , knowledge that had hitherto been unknown to me . |
| 20 | After dinner in the drawing-room the children , fierce now with the determination to stay awake on such an evening — for even though dinner had been very early to accommodate them , they had all been awake since dawn — clamoured for games . |
| 21 | But then , those few of Elise 's men friends whom Merrill had met had all been charismatic in one way or another . |
| 22 | The various people mentioned , such as Ned and Barley , had all been involved in the operation in one way or another . |
| 23 | It had all been stage-managed by the Mossad . |
| 24 | My clothes , hair , ears , trainers had all been full of broken bits of twig … |
| 25 | Before the 1967 war Syria , Egypt and Jordan had all been concerned with the issues of Arab nationalism . |
| 26 | They had all been hard at work ever since . |
| 27 | They had all been lucky to be seen out with him . |
| 28 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 29 | Hedley Byrne was considering a substantial advertising programme for a customer which previously had only been involved in limited programmes . |
| 30 | She was a weak fool — the pillow received another thump — imagining things when he had only been intent on silencing her . |