Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 2 | There 'd just been a cancellation . ’ |
| 3 | Well , I 'd always been a bit too busy — and clever ! |
| 4 | He 'd always been a dairy farmer , you see , like I am . |
| 5 | She had n't deserved their kindness , their good wishes — she 'd hardly been a boon companion of late . |
| 6 | You see , he 'd once been a costermonger himself , but that was before he married Miss Roach , the baker 's daughter . |
| 7 | ‘ Also , if you 'd really been a journalist you 'd have known what a ‘ stringer ’ is . |
| 8 | Lawrence could n't make you feel that , because he 'd never been a worker . |
| 9 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 10 | Before Hilda he 'd never been the kind who liked to have certainty , but after she came he settled for her way . |
| 11 | But the whole experience left me ruefully feeling that it had perhaps been a mistake to publish a report about them . |
| 12 | Milton remarked that this chair had hitherto been a sinecure , though it carried a salary of over £100 per annum and would ‘ serve any gentleman especially a law[y]er ’ . |
| 13 | Character dance like demi-caractère dance had its beginnings in La Fille Mal Gardée when farmers and peasants were first allowed to set foot on the Royal and Imperial stages , which had hitherto been the home of gods and goddesses or noble and well-born heroes and heroines . |
| 14 | In its document Partnership in Validation , it declared its intention of granting approval to ‘ well established courses ’ for indefinite periods , instead of for five years as had hitherto been the case . |
| 15 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 16 | It is reasonable to suppose that these language users might ( even accidentally ) hit on new combinations of phrases to produce slightly longer sentences than had hitherto been the rule : sentences , moreover , whose newly-coined significance derived from both the context of their first use and the pre-established significance of their components . |
| 17 | One might say that the architect 's or engineer 's conception of a model replaced what had hitherto been the accountant 's model — C6H6 , the mere counting of atoms — in the chemical formula . |
| 18 | On some mornings the ducks on Three Island Pond would take off in great arcing flights against the sun , round and behind the Cages and out of sight , round again and behind the distant trees and then suddenly back again as if it had all been a mistake and they had never meant to fly off in the first place . |
| 19 | She had been convinced at first that it had all been a mistake , that she had indeed misread the unspoken message contained in the postcard . |
| 20 | Surely they realised that it had all been a mistake once you explained ? ’ |
| 21 | And then I made a mistake , I felt it had all been a sacrifice in vain , I felt I had to make him appreciate what I 'd done , that he ought to let me go — so I tried to tell him . |
| 22 | But it had all been a trick , a dreadful trick . |
| 23 | It had all been a trick , all that sweet , hot loving , that tenderness , just a cruel device to help him find out what she knew . |
| 24 | But it had all been a bluff . |
| 25 | Within Dotty 's hearing a home pirate remarked that he thought it had all been a storm in a teacup . |
| 26 | Drugged again , they regained consciousness outside the valley in anguish that it had all been a dream . |
| 27 | It had all been a dream ; perhaps she 'd never even left it . |
| 28 | Perhaps it had all been a dream . |
| 29 | But it had all been a sham . |
| 30 | Now he saw it had all been a sham . |