Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [noun sg] to " in BNC.

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1 Very little apart from his outward appearance , and when he had n't been teasing her he 'd been carelessly kind to her when they met .
2 They 'd been unbelievably kind to her , not that it was any of his business — he was n't one of the villagers , just a visitor .
3 But , looking into her face , it did n't seem as if her years of freedom had been particularly kind to her .
4 The years had been reasonably kind to Katherine Lundy — or at least had been until she had begun drinking heavily .
5 But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board .
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