Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 2 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 3 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 4 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 5 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 6 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 7 | He 'd been there all night sleeping on a bench . |
| 8 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 9 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 10 | Surely there 'd been too little time , but then her father would n't have needed much time , would he ? |
| 11 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 12 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 13 | So she 'd been out all day to this cousin 's at Blakely She goes on a Monday now . |
| 14 | Must of been , cos they 'd been out all day . |
| 15 | So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises . |
| 16 | I 'd been so good sea sick . |
| 17 | I do n't think it 'd been very lucrative work with the amount of time he took to it . |
| 18 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 19 | She 'd been under medical care . ’ |
| 20 | It had taken until the long , open left-hander that leads down into Glen Kinglas before my erection had finally subsided , and that had been mostly naked fear ; Verity had lost it just for a second , the rear of the car nudging out towards the wrong side of the road as we whanged round the bend . |
| 21 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 22 | An attractive young woman in her mid-twenties , she had been just one year away from her final examinations as a solicitor when , two years earlier , she had been rushed into hospital for an emergency appendectomy . |
| 23 | Physically he had been just one millimetre closer to Doreen than ever before , but emotionally he had crossed a frontier . |
| 24 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 25 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 26 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 27 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 28 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 29 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 30 | Three years later , the Siemens brothers extended cable communications even further by implementing an 11,000km telegraph line between London and Calcutta , a very considerable achievement , one which had been yet another adventure , the sort that provided — like the Atlantic cable saga — the densely-packed reports and darkly realistic illustration for which the Illustrated London News had become justifiably renowned . |