Example sentences of "there [vb past] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been no happy endings here . |
| 2 | There 'd been a slight brush with Gallaghers car which was going in excess of 40 mph . |
| 3 | so in all purp in , in always , the fact that you 'd come into this house made one realize that there 'd been a distinct change in one 's circumstances . |
| 4 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 5 | Right so after nineteen forty five there cer there certainly would have been a momentum towards this in the areas where there 'd been a strong Japanese presence because there would be more collaborators and there would be some more obvious targets . |
| 6 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 7 | He just said there 'd been a terrible misunderstanding , and you would n't listen when he tried to explain . ’ |
| 8 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 9 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 10 | If it was obvious that there 'd been a false declaration . |
| 11 | Existence had battered him , he said , remaining where he was , seeming not to have heard her : there 'd been a different child once . |
| 12 | There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 14 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 15 | There 'd been a big square of white cloth amongst them , which a group of nomes had managed to tie around the human 's mouth after its mooing got on everyone 's nerves . |
| 16 | There 'd been a whole day 's racing at Goodwood , two afternoons at Wimbledon for the semi-finals and finals , the Eton and Harrow cricket match , a day at Henley and invitations to lunch and dinner parties , the theatre , the opera and then on to one of the nightclubs . |
| 17 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
| 18 | There 'd been a beautiful poster in the early 1970s showing a pregnant woman in a flowing dress and headed ‘ WOMAN POWER ’ . |
| 19 | There 'd been an uneasy truce , a kind of businesslike friendliness while the matter of the fair at the Palazzo Parisio was handled and finalised . |
| 20 | But this time there 'd been an unfortunate accident — the worker had been distracted and had applied the blow torch to a pipe opening just as the varnish was starting to flow . |
| 21 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 22 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 23 | They had had no indication that anything had gone wrong , but there had been no firm news from Stockholm since before the flight . |
| 24 | Indeed , a similar interpretation was put forward by President de Klerk yesterday when he said that there had been no firm agreement on power-sharing and stressed the need for the resumption of multi-party talks . |
| 25 | Oddly enough , there had been no similar arrangements about the second or right angle quadrant . |
| 26 | Lunt later conceded that this was because there had been no comparative studies , and urged scientific tests to establish the levels of natural toxins in organic products and their effects on humans . |
| 27 | Happily there had been no actual loss of life . |
| 28 | Chiltern District Council v. Keane [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 619 was an appeal from the High Court in which it was held that ( 1 ) the notice of motion to commit lacked sufficient particularity to enable the alleged contemnor to meet the charge , ( 2 ) there had been no personal service of notice of an adjourned hearing date and ( 3 ) the committal order failed to give particulars of the facts found to constitute the contempt . |
| 29 | In Tanzania in the early 1980s , 90 per cent of agricultural production in the resettled villages was still geared to subsistence consumption and there had been no long-term increase in the productivity of the farmers involved . |
| 30 | Although the quietness of his end was made memorable by Reith 's BBC announcement that ‘ the King 's life is moving peacefully towards its close ’ , there had been no long-term illness during which an early change of reign had been accepted and prepared for . |