Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 32 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 33 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 34 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 35 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 36 | The Georgian military said the Su-25 had attacked several times during Saturday but had been away by anti-aircraft fire . |
| 37 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 38 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 39 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 40 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 41 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 42 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 43 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 44 | The centre ground of British politics remained the same uncertain terrain it had been ever since 1918 . |
| 45 | The Lords were more diehard , as they had been ever since 1911 , but unless their powers were restored they would denounce the government in vain . |
| 46 | The 80s had been all about obsessional lifestyles , body consciousness , diet fads , work-out videos , designer leotards , Reeboks and Aqua Libra . |
| 47 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 48 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 49 | She had been seriously into pink for a year ; Victoria indulged her with delight and stifled the protests of her own aesthetic sense . |
| 50 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 51 | Mr Modrow also criticised the party 's former leader , Mr Egon Krenz , who he said had been far from honest in saying he was a reformer . |
| 52 | The visit had been far from successful , for Adam had sulked when offered the four-ten , the so-called ‘ lady 's gun ’ . |
| 53 | The operation had been far from easy , the cable being ‘ … manhandled out of the hold of a steamer , over a pulley and round a drum which measured the speed , and then several times round a brake drum before passing into the sea ’ .5 |
| 54 | Both Croatia and the Lebanon objected on the grounds that Sotheby 's had been far from complete in its discovery process , and was trying to slip out from the case before the evidence of Mr Camber was made available . |
| 55 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 56 | Absenteeism and lack of reverence in church had been far from unknown before the Reformation ; indeed such charges were the most frequent cause of appearances before the Suffolk ecclesiastical courts in the fifteenth century . |
| 57 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 58 | Earlier in the day , Jeffrey had been far from happy to learn that the Scotland seven to be chosen from a pool of ten — Hong Kong have increased from nine to remain consistent with the World Cup format — would have around five hours between their ties tomorrow . |
| 59 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 60 | The BBC 's pre-war conception of the audience had been more like that of someone reading a book — a deliberate and solitary or individual habit , though it may be done in company — than of a collective social entity . |