Been Sentence Examples
I have been in Paris.
The battle had been raging for some time.
You've been a very good girl.
His little army had been beaten and scattered.
She was uneasy because she had never been on a plane before.
I have not been sick at all.
We've been away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get home again.
Where in the world have you been, my lad?
He has been called the Father of his Country.
May each evening see that all thy wishes have been performed.
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He and Uncle Hugson have been having a fine visit.
We've been married for nearly five years, and we just made love.
Gilbert de Lafayette's father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been brave and noble men.
The little chest that held his clothing had been carried down to the bank.
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He began to ask about his enemies who had been hunting him.
It was recognized as the flu, although records describe conditions which were highly likely to have been polio.
Lately she has been much interested in colour.
There has been much discussion of such of Miss Sullivan's statements and explanations as have been published before.
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But scientists have been busy sequencing all manner of things.
Well... they had been flirting with each other in the car.
It's been almost a week.
He was a great hunter, I have been told, and a celebrated shot.
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They had never been anywhere else overnight together.
We've been sitting here too long!
These were two Frenchmen who had been hiding in the forest.
She's been sleeping a lot.
They were angry because their plans had been discovered.
We've been in the dark quite a while, and you may as well explain what has happened.
If he had been the only child in the family, things might have been different.
That should have been the end of it, right?
When has starting a business been so easy?
These same questions had been asked me a hundred times by the learned doctors.
But then, Alex had always been fluent in pretty talk.
You've been a comfort to me.
If you hadn't happened to find the piglet, Eureka would surely have been executed.
He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
And yet, in a way, waiting this long might have been an advantage.
Water would have been her choice.
More like Dulce has been talking to me.
Do you think everything they have done has been with the single ambition of getting third-party information out of you?
Mom said Dad hasn't been feeling well, and he won't go to the doctor.
This has been a common situation throughout areas with high degrees of poverty and is certainly the case in Ethiopia.
His day had already been disrupted enough.
I've been sitting right over there.
We've been on the same stage since Ashley.
The records may have been destroyed.
The morning had been fine, but it was growing warm and sultry when at last we turned our faces homeward.
She had been with me to take letters to the post-office.
She had been living in a world she could not realize.
That beverage was already known to the French and had been given a special name.
You've been quiet for weeks - since we left Texas.
Both are better off than they were, even though nothing new has been created.
In 2005, rice became the first crop plant whose complete genome had been compiled.
Besides, I have been told that "sociables" cost more than other kinds of bicycles.
In order to answer her questions, I have been obliged to read a great deal about animals.
It wouldn't have been so much fun for him if she had reacted the way he did when she told him she was pregnant.
Actually, she hadn't thought how it looked to others - and there had never been any doubt in her mind that she was fortunate to have Alex.
But it would have been alright if I had?
It's been more than that for a long time - or am I only imagining things?
Had the idea only been a clever method to gain favors?
I've just been paddling to keep my head above water my whole life long and sinking down further with every stroke.
I've been thinking on the way out here.
Bunches of the letters hadn't even been opened yet.
I would have been as nervous as a mouse on a cheese hunt at her age but Molly is raring to go.
I shouldn't have been surprised.
Had he been drinking?
But I've been trying for days!
She shivered, unaware just how close she'd been to dying by his hands.
It had been the mildest late winter in years and the lack of high country snow had opened the Jeep roads weeks earlier than usual.
That's great had already been used.
Jenny Calvia had been the love of Randy's life since high school.
Been there, done that.
I've been picked over six years, but our family is known to be especially long lived.
Dorothy climbed into the buggy, although Jim had been unharnessed from it and was grazing some distance away.
And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.
Everybody was astonished, for that boy was the best scholar in the school, and he had never been known to break a rule.
The captain himself had been a robber.
But if I had not helped you, you would have been in a worse place.
Smallpox has been with us for thousands of years.
Ever since we've had agriculture, people have been employing technology to make it better.
What else has been achieved in our march toward civilization?
In the past, humanity has been able to sustain both wars and progress.
Wars have often been the result of misunderstandings brought about by language.
But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.
Until then I had been like a foreigner speaking through an interpreter.
We could hear the yells of the boys and the cheers of the lookers-on as plainly in our room as if we had been on the field.
A child of the muses cannot write fine English unless fine English has been its nourishment.
A bed had been made on a bedstead for the countess only.
Should I inform Merrill Cooms I'd been in contact with After, the investigative baby he himself had started?
Howie would toss in towel once he learned he'd been deceived by this woman, his first love.
Perhaps I was being unfair but everything we'd been able to do was close to ending with a sad whimper, due to the greed of this woman.
I haven't been this frightened since I was seven years old and got locked in our cellar.
Unfortunately, there were at least four where Howie's abilities could have been utilized.
She had not been reported missing because her mother lay dead in their small rural farm house over a hundred miles away.
She agreed it had been prudent to warn her.
I've been trying to figure this guy's route.
Yes and I can go back to asking questions I haven't been able to ask and I have sources to get answers.
When I heard his voice, my heart jumped, not knowing if he'd been told by Martha of Julie's earlier treachery.
He paused before saying he thought Howie suspected it might have been Molly's father or some old boyfriend.
Howie's mother took a turn for the worse and he'd been advised she wouldn't make it.
I told her I'd asked the same question of Martha earlier and she'd been noncommittal.
There's been so many, you probably don't remember, but I looked him up.
Half the services I've been to, the presiding reverend never met the deceased and still managed to say something nice.
That the power hasn't been off very long.
Was this break in and shooting a coincidental event or might someone else have been as clever as I at tracking down this nefarious tipster?
I've never been to Missouri and I don't know anyone from there.
Then I asked, "Have you brought the others up to speed on what's been happening?"
The two were closer than they should have been.
I've been checking old cases too, real old ones, to see if I can get a handle on when our friend Grasso started in business.
He may have been doing his dirty deeds twenty years or more.
How did Martha react when you told her I'd been attacked?
No. She addressed it to us and said she hates to do it but it's time to stop what we've all been working on for the last nine months.
Better that she convey the information to Howie in her own words, and not compel me to admit what we'd been holding back information from him.
Might he be nearly as close to us as Owen Bryce had been?
I've been all tied up with this funeral business.
It's been so long since I've satisfied my cravings and I deserve a reward for my diligence.
I've been doing a lot of fishing, of both kinds this week.
If I hadn't been summoned to Detective Jackson's office, I would have gone there anyway.
He's been camping in Keene for a week, looking for us.
I wouldn't have been so forgiving if you went through with it!
If I hadn't taken time to apply my sleeping solution to the rag, I'd have been in the process of taking them just as that police car with its flashing lights came rolling up!
They must have been more than just suspicious of you.
Howie must have been devastated!
One of them might have even been responsible for Annie's murder.
Was there one of them in particular you think might have been responsible for Annie's murder?
It was still early in California and I assumed she was at dinner though I'd been more comfortable knowing she and Molly had reached their destination without hitch.
Maybe he hasn't been as careful with it as everything else.
I'd been so wrong!
He was as speechless as I had been as we hugged each other and somehow made it into my room.
That monster might have still been in the house!
I don't know what I assumed; that they'd been away someplace and the baby was there.
Your friends have been dead some time, probably from when you told me they had gone into hiding.
He's been stalking us all the way from New Hampshire where he killed two friends of ours.
The FBI can fill you in better when they get here but this guy's been off the grid since he was released from prison last summer.
It must have been Molly; knowing her very life, was in my hands.
We had been there perhaps an hour when we heard him return.
After all, no one in history has ever been able to look into the past the way we do.
He'd been moving steadily downhill since before he traveled west to his mother's final days and had not improved since her passing.
While we'd both been witness scores of times, neither of us had paid much attention.
The neighbor we woke up says he's been around and he drives a dark blue van.
The person you and Elizabeth have been stalking.
I assumed he'd been called to the hospital.
He must have been flying a hundred miles an hour to make that mess.
While she mourned Howie's passing she is a survivor and always has been.
Four serial killers have been rendered permanently inoperative.
She dug through the pockets in her jeans and pulled out the stash of one dollar bills she'd been given for trips to the candy machine down the hall.
It had always been so.
Thanks. It's been a bit rough lately for both of us.
It's been a year since I found out you were married and we split!
He was her world, but she'd been nothing more than an afterthought, strung along with promises for years.
The one who had been shooting the others was as large as Talon and plainly Hispanic.
In all their years together, they'd never been out of communication more than a few days.
You would have been good at it.
It left him more hands-on with the western front than he'd been in hundreds of years.
From his shoulders to his chest to his flat midsection, every part of him looked as if he'd been carefully carved from stone.
I've been studying culinary arts for a few years and recently decided to branch out on my own.
Her cheek was red as if she'd been struck, and there were tears on her face already.
Jonny was safe, even if she hadn't been able to wipe away all traces of the poison in his blood.
When he didn't, she rubbed her face, wondering what exactly she'd been dragged into and if her heart would explode if he reappeared.
She retrieved the clothing, judging that Sofi had been the one to pick the original clothes out.
It's been hard for him this past year.
She'd been through hell at Talon's hands.
He hadn't thought it as harsh as it was, just like he thought nothing of killing anything in his path, but seeing the look on a normal human's face reminded him he'd been close to losing what humanity he possessed for quite a while.
He'd been a kid when Damian found him and a human when the Schism occurred.
He disappeared, and she stared at the place where he'd been, wondering why he was so upset with himself.
Awhile later, the sound of furniture crashing against the tile floor startled her, and she sat up from where she'd been dozing in front of the TV.
If he'd been talking about any other man, she would have doubted his words.
He'd been too busy to eat again today since the sandwich she made him for breakfast.
Maybe it was his looming death, or maybe it was the energy from her cool touch that calmed him from the inside out, but he wondered what life would've been like had his family survived.
I keep thinking, if I'd been in Miami instead of California, he wouldn't have, Bianca said, looking down.
At barely ten years old, he'd been too weak to fight off full-grown men, too weak to protect her.
She was fully a part of him when they touched, as if he'd been missing more than a piece of his soul all these years and just now realized it.
Jenn's been puttin' the hurt on her sources for info on Talon's plans.
He's been in northern Florida since we cut him loose.
I've never been to Ohio.
She hadn't been able to log onto Dusty's computer, because he kept it locked out.
He'd been so excited about his phone.
Darian had also been clear about the type of relationships Dusty preferred.
It was his job to protect humans, and he hadn't been able to protect one woman in his own home!
He'd never been afraid of anything in his life until that moment when all his power and control meant nothing.
You've been run ragged for too long.
As the baby of the three, he'd always been the rock star among them.
He'd never been alone.
He recalled how soothing her hug had been earlier and itched to feel her soft, warm body in his arms again.
She couldn't bear the thought of him returning to the troubled teen he'd been and tried to think of something to say to straddle the line between mothering him and letting him be his own person.
He had no control of his own powers, and he'd not yet been tested in a confrontation with the man who enslaved him.
We've never been able to transform a vamp into a human in thousands of years.
Of all the coddling he'd accused Sofi and Bianca of doing, he'd been working hard to protect Darian from anything that might force him to grow into his powers.
He deserved it, after all the trouble he'd been, but these people didn't!
It was the worst place she'd ever been, worse than any horror movie, worse than any nightmare.
They'd been there what felt like a day, and yet the sun was in the same position as when they'd been thrown into the world.
She sneaked a peek at her phone, agitated that Darian hadn't been at all concerned with the situation he left her in.
She hadn't been able to get through to anyone else and wondered if there was some magic trick he'd done to reach her.
His light was off, a sign he'd been sleeping too hard to notice someone come in.
Most everyone has been evac'd by the state.
For a moment, Dusty was reminded again of the strong, confident leader Darian had been, long ago.
What's been set into motion can't be stopped, but you at least have a chance if you have her.
They've been busy lately.
His brothers weren't any closer than they had been, but the sound of their voices made him realize how alone he'd really felt the past two weeks.
He'd been jogging for an hour when a black Tahoe pulled up alongside him.
Damian suspected what kind of hell Dusty had been through and was pleased to see his trusted friend looking good.
You know what I've been doing for the past few months?
I think the worst is you've been whipped by a woman, Damian ticked off.
You've always been bad with woman.
Not sure how, when you've been nagging me for thousands of years.
When he finishes clean-up in Ohio, he's been instructed to count the stalks of wheat in the field outside Speck's farmhouse and not return until he's done, Dusty growled.
The hair on the back of his neck had been standing for the past mile he'd walked, only he wasn't entirely certain why.
I've been expecting you for years.
The manor house had been built several hundred years ago, and every room but hers was a reflection of her father's wealth.
It's been ten years since I first told you this.
Instead of speaking, she kissed him on the cheek and hurried out the door, where her car had already been pulled in front of the manor.
Why, then, was he starting to feel as if he'd been set up?
With magic or without, he'd won every brawl he'd ever been in, and he definitely wasn't afraid to fight a girl.
She'd always been grateful to him for accepting her and her gift, but he'd always refused to tell her what exactly he was and how he seemed to be able to read her mind sometimes.
She'd been in the large storage room once while playing hide and seek long ago.
He'd been afraid of scaring the beautiful redhead away if she saw he was free.
The Darian he remembered had never been brooding or hesitant like this man.
He hadn't ever been without his healing powers.
It should've been so simple.
He's been explaining how things work to me, Jonny said, blinking out of his thoughts.
Charles here has been offered up by Jonny in exchange for your help for a thirty-day ceasefire.
I think I'm doing pretty damn good, considering I would've been able to kill him if you hadn't shot and run me over, he replied in irritation.
You've been the highlight.
I've been waiting here for you to call.
Have you been there for the past two days? her father asked.
I've been trying to call your mobile.
He sounded pleased, unlike the moods he'd been in lately.
Sean had been alive when her father knocked out Jule and brought him here the other night.
If he was dead, it meant her father did it, not Jule, who had been in the basement.
Her father's collection of weapons had been a source of curiosity for as long as she could remember.
In looking at them again, she could see the time and effort that would've been required to keep them cleaned and sharpened.
She wondered how many other men had been killed by the clean, neatly aligned weapons in the armory.
He's been working on the same team for years.
Soup was out of the question; it might as well have been a million miles away in the kitchen.
He'd never been human, and he had no idea how long it took for a human body to heal.
Darian had been a shell of a man when Sofi found him several months ago.
It was as if small objects had been buried in the ground, and their weak magic was muffled.
I've been waiting for you for so long, Yully.
She'd been deep undercover in much worse situations.
Jonny had been drawn to the view as she was and stood before the window.
He'd been a good kid, lost, but honorable.
He couldn't shake the sense it hadn't been a dream.
She touched it, as thrilled to wear his symbol as she had been her father's.
He was dressed in black, and his chiseled features and striking blue eyes were perfect enough to have been sculptured.
He and Sean had been assigned together at the station for over a decade.
The Other's bedchamber had been empty, as if the otherworldly creature was permanently gone.
You've always been a selfish creature, Jule.
Sofi said the Originals aren't what we've been led to believe them to be.
She went to lock her door, only to find the lock had been removed.
She couldn't help thinking her life had been wasted and hoped she still had a chance to make it up to the one person who mattered.
They looked as if they'd been torn apart by some monster she couldn't imagine.
All the Originals have been freed and expelled.
Jonny isn't quite ready yet to deal with the Others who have been stirring up trouble within the vamp ranks.
Damian heard the uneasy note in her voice and looked her over, his gaze lingering at her hips, where her weapons should've been.
Darian wants nothing to do with any woman after what he's been through.
Something had changed with him, too, and she sensed the subtle power that hadn't been there at the monument.
He looked like her father, only his eyes glowed green where her father's had been purple.
This is the first time I've been able to find you.
I haven't been able to get you out of my cube for the past two weeks.
Lacy wore a skirt too short and tight for office wear, but when you're the boss … "I noticed you've been taking a lot of sick time lately," Lacy said as Sofia entered the room.
You've been lying to me!
He's been worried sick!
Her favorite feature, her eyes, had always been a pretty shade of turquoise.
Yeah, he's been pacing like a madman for a couple of hours.
There had been none since Claire, whose powers had been so weak, she couldn't even be blood bound.
Every vision she'd had, even when Jake touched her, had been of death.
She'd never been moody or wimpy or weak!
He's been cranky all night.
She'd been drinking fruit punch when she felt drowsy.
It'd been too long since a normal woman overcame his first impression.
He'd never been mistaken for a gentleman, but the woman shimmered with a sweet, pure aura that made him feel obliged to behave.
Her turquoise eyes had been so lost and confused, he couldn't help but take pity on her.
He was pretending to read a book, though she suspected he'd been emplaced as her bodyguard.
Her headache had been gone most of the morning for the first time in months, until the monster in her head started clawing at her mind.
The base camp housed the emergency response helicopters for Tucson and neighboring sectors and was manned with a skeletal crew of Guardians and one on-duty pilot, a Natural who'd been trained to fly.
There was a reason he banned thoughts of Darian and Claire from his mind, an instinct he'd never been able to face in all the years since Darian's death.
She'd had never felt overwhelmed by a man before, and she'd certainly never been a woman who felt weak-kneed!
No one has ever been able to see into my mind.
Furious his order had been disobeyed, Damian started for the young Guardian.
She'd been there twice before today and only knocked once for fear he'd answer.
He reached for her, but his scarred hand passed through hers, as if all that remained of him was a ghost of the man he'd been.
The scene played over and over in her thoughts, growing stronger until he was as vivid during daylight as he had been at night.
His slain brother's wife had always been a painful sight for him, the reminder of his brother and a happier time before the Schism.
My love, we've been destined for each other since I wed your brother thousands of years ago.
Our European front has been growing progressively weaker the past hundred years.
They've been killing themselves with cyanide pills, Rainy added.
Traci hasn't adjusted yet, and Linda's been a big help.
Damian had been considering how to help Sofia adjust.
He was accompanied by Dustin and two other men, one she knew as Sasha, a man who'd struck her with his devotedness to his family, and Levi, a man who'd been present in many of his pre-Schism memories.
Maybe Darian hadn't been talking about infidelity but about something else.
Claire was all that remained of his brother, and he'd loved her out of respect for a man whose death he'd never been able to accept.
If he had, how many thousands of lives would have been saved?
Her eyes had been shadowed since he met her, her own struggle with her new world taking a visible toll on her.
The videos running through her head were dark and disturbing, had been since she entered his world.
It was a war his family had been fighting for millennia, one that wouldn't end even with his death.
He'd been as gentle with her as he'd known how, and still she suffered under the weight of the visions.
Their war, it's been going on for thousands of years.
He's been after bad guys for thousands of years, and he's never gone to the Dark Side or quit or anything.
Damian gritted his teeth, remembering how tempted he'd been by the same ruse a few nights before.
You've killed so many, and I've been too afraid to see you for what you are.
It must not have been totally unheard of if they all understood what it was.
I've been living in the bachelor pad with the guys for three months now.
I've been crying for a week straight.
I've been spying on the thoughts of humanity for thousands of years.
He'd been alone since, except for his two adopted brothers.
He'd never been able to share his pain with anyone else.
She was more grateful to him in that moment than she'd ever been.
It's been a good week.
In hindsight, he wondered how he'd ever been fooled or why he'd settle for Claire when there was someone like Sofia out there, who'd love him for him and not for his title.
The halls narrowed and sloped, and he knew he'd been this way before even though he didn't remember when.
He'd never been able to bring himself to wear it.
It'd been only a week and a half since she ventured into this new world, but she felt strangely exposed without Pierre with her.
I've been there twice to check for signs of vamp surveillance.
Damian appeared, a fragmented vision, as if the vamp had been peering through a foggy window.
He didn't remember how he got it, and he doubted it'd been there before kiri put it there hours before.
Damian's own head was fuzzy from the effects of the drink he'd been force fed.
I think he's since been sickened with evil and forgotten if you don't exist, neither does he.
He'd been too kind in his execution of the sick bitch!
Jule had never said what he'd done to piss someone off and get exiled to earth, but it must have been bad if the Watcher's kind clipped his powers and sent him packing.
Her bruises were gone, and her two-toned eyes were calmer than they'd been.
She hesitated, sensing he would be angrier with her than Jule or Dustin had been.
It's been a rough few days.
He'd been there long enough that the snow had covered his footprints.
She didn't miss the look of relief that crossed Pierre's face and suspected he'd been threatened with a reassignment for shooting her.
But … there has only been one other Dark One before Darkyn.
It was the same thrum she felt with Gabriel, after she'd been claimed as his mate.
Would it be as strong as hers had been to Gabriel, where she'd ached for him to touch her, no matter how little sense it made?
She hadn't been able to break up with a boyfriend she was sick of for fear of hurting his feelings.
His nose bore the appearance of having been broken and set incorrectly more than once.
A few more days, and even I wouldn't have been able to undo what Wynn did.
His advice had been to give in to Darkyn.
It was the same question she'd been asking herself.
Gabriel had been, and she was furious at herself for not taking him more seriously and for choosing to accept Darkyn's deal instead of taking a chance with Gabriel.
All of this would've been avoided.
She hadn't been ready to die, though.
It helped wake her up without completely lifting the fog of a fever that had been present since yesterday.
Her face warmed at how desperate she'd been for a single drop of him, to feel him inside her while his fangs sank into her neck.
It's useless to dwell on what might've been.
She'd been on the verge of dying, discussing how her impending death forced her to decide whether she wanted to live or mourn.
Darkyn has been spinning out of control for many years.
I've been charged with curing her.
You've been gone, what?
She missed nature in the time she'd been in Hell.
Darkyn's been relentless in pursuing me.
They've been attacking schools all over the world.
It's been going on for two weeks, and it's getting worse.
Relief made the tears she'd been holding begin to fall.
He was yielding now, as he'd been last night.
This world had been all she knew three weeks ago.
He had almost been kind, or at least, as kind as he was capable of being.
It was hard enough for her to stand before him, knowing they could've been together.
I've been trying to figure him out for the past few days and have no clue.
She'd never before been able to tell when someone lied to her or when they were manipulating her.
There have been two deities in the position of the Dark One, rendering him one of the oldest.
She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.
There have been nine deities to serve in this position.
She'd been molded to exist for one reason and expected to step aside when her purpose was fulfilled.
He has been very assertive and direct.
Hell has a library, and the librarian has been teaching me about the deities through these little video tutorial things.
Basically. Or would've been, if Darkyn hadn't decided to honor the informal deal he made with her.
There was a part of her that wished it had been her she saw in the videos.
Their first and only exchange hadn't been pleasant.
I've been afraid of losing him my whole life.
I've been trying to think of how to do that.
What she started to feel for Gabriel had been real; what she felt for Darkyn was real.
Yet this was the way it was always supposed to have been.
Her hope had been crushed in every other way – except that it stirred once more at the idea there was more to him than she knew.
You've been reading my mind from the beginning, haven't you?
Her heart beat rapidly at what it meant to surrender what had been her one hope to leave Hell.
She had been over every inch of his body numerous times without seeing the marking.
She couldn't stand the thought of seeing Selyn hurt, as much because of everything the girl had been through as the thought of hurting Darkyn.
We've been gone nearly an hour, I bet.
All the good stuff here has been dug out already.
It had been a perfect day at Bird Song—until the phone call came and tanked any semblance of tranquility into a mire of despair.
According to the brief phone call, the ten-year-old girl's natural mother, another loser like faux foster mother Janet, had been recently discharged to a halfway house after doing hard time in the state's Cañon City facility.
She might as well have been dropped out of the sky by a clumsy stork.
Something's been troubling Martha for the past two weeks.
There, it's been said.
I thought they'd all been dead for centuries!
Even Bird Song's gilded front sign, advertising the bed and breakfast, had been washed of a year's dust from the unpaved side street.
I've been packing my stuff.
Randy must have been a really good kid.
I've been all over and most of it looks the same from a bus or a bar.
Have you been doing this long?
Might it have just been some kind of a joke?
You must have been petrified!
I could see the white face and holes where his eyes should have been.
Nobody knows where the man is and even if he's been in there a long, long time, someone must care about him, or at least maybe did back then, when it happened.
It might have been you down in that horrible place.
You must have been a really naughty little girl.
I went skinny dipping in the quarry where I'd been told not to go.
He must have been mad as hell.
The night had been interminable.
Dean cursed himself for not wanting to talk to the redheaded deputy, who would have been infinitely preferable to this obnoxious jerk.
There's a young girl who's been staying with us.
It's a good six hours away and that's only as long as she's been gone.
She stood with a tall, good-looking man with a rounded haircut that might have been stylish somewhere but to Dean looked silly.
I'd have been shocked if he didn't take his sweet time going up to the mine.
There had been no mention of the lack of contact from the girl, but all three were disappointed no call had been received.
He'd been on thin ice with this whole subject since the beginning.
He had been there, damn it, and nobody could take that away!
He never had been able to lie worth a damn.
That's what they've been doing for the past three years.
That's not been decided—not by a long shot!
According to Martha, no one has been near that mine in years.
Certainly it hasn't been worked.
A heavenly experience, if their destination had been different.
The roads up here haven't been free of snow all that long.
The stuff may have been left since Martha was here.
The winter had been exceptionally clear of late snow and the high mountain passes that in many years remained closed until July had been cleared weeks earlier this spring.
It seemed to come from behind them but it could have been anything—a dislodged rock, an echo of their own movements.
Dean tried to remember all the methods he'd been taught to stem panic and act rationally.
Bumpin' Bertha here doesn't make very good time but she's been getting the job done for a lot of years.
Hand brake's been busted for ages.
I've been visiting the San Juans every summer now for the last twenty years.
But I've always been content to let someone else wait on me.
One look told her he'd been up to no good.
What should have been unfinished was the pie you had for last night's supper and all those Fat Tire Ales.
It looks like a hole in the ground that hasn't been touched in thirty years or more.
God—that would have been a joke!
Detective Dean might have been on a roll, but his wagon had suddenly come to a stop.
Seems it's been rented for years.
It's as if they might have been switched—from a real skeleton.
And if Martha's discovery had been substituted with the theater prop, he'd bet his boots there was an empty trunk out there somewhere!
Cynthia Dean, in hoping for further confirmation that the bones had been switched, tried to contact the parents of Caleb Jones, Martha's friend who was with her in the mine.
The mock bones had been in storage for a couple of years—since the theater group went bust—in an unmarked trunk.
That young man has been in the water fight for years.
The water fight's been going that long?
One of Martha's Bird Song chores had been keeping the struggling plant hydrated.
She might have been a fellow juror, but Dean sensed that he was watching Jennifer Radisson in his rearview mirror.
On second thought, maybe that would have been fun!
He'd only been here once, years before, but he told me he owned land and one day he'd settle in the town.
We couldn't have been happier, and it never changed for a moment for the whole twelve years before he died.
Look, I feel like a fool asking embarrassing questions, especially to someone as kind as you've been, but my wife and I promised a little girl we'd follow up on this.
The entire town wouldn't have been more excited if the New Year's Rose Parade had come to little Ouray.
I been looking for you all over.
The look Dean gave him left no doubt they knew where he'd been.
Both Paul and Joseph Dawkins and Brandon Westlake have been lining up to use Fred's equipment.
It was senseless to look elsewhere, as both had been present when Cynthia placed the small fragment in the cut glass enclosure.
They'd been in the mine for forty years.
His shirt was untucked and Dean glanced at his fly, wondering if he'd been caught using a tree for a call of nature.
We assumed the skeleton would have been discovered if there was activity in there.
The Lucky Pup has apparently been sealed up for the last forty years until someone—kids, we think—broke into the mine this spring.
He's been up in Fort Collins doing an estate auction.
It's been a long day.
He sat on a sofa while she settled into a leather rocker where she'd evidently been sitting, as there was a nearly empty pint of vodka on the table next to her.
If the trunk didn't get switched while the auctioneer had it, then it must have been swapped back when it was in storage.
The weapon hadn't been cleaned since it was last fired, but all six chambers contained bullets.
It's true Mr. Dean has been under fire—it's fortunate we're standing here today—not sitting.
While I can't say for certain he'd been drinking—the autopsy hasn't been performed yet—I know from past experience that many of our teenagers drink regularly.
The remainder of the meeting rocked back and forth, but there was no doubt in Dean's mind that he'd been hurt badly—and unfairly—by Fitzgerald.
To make matters worse, half of Bird Song's guests who passed by congratulated him on the debate, a sure sign they hadn't been there.
He did so now, describing Lydia's reluctance in descending to the accident, but glossing over just how petrified she'd been.
I don't even like to say it because I don't have an ounce of evidence, but at the debate Fitzgerald said liquor had been found in Billy's vehicle.
While Dean had been at odds with the man since their first confrontation last January, it was Fitzgerald's venomous comments at the debate that led Dean to now believe him capable of almost anything.
I don't know, but his gun has been fired since it was last cleaned.
Everyone's been using your computer—practically kicking you out of your own room.
Maybe Martha's coming back and the woman just wanted to know if we've been told!
All had been collecting Social Security for a good part of Dean's lifetime.
I haven't been up that way in years.
That's been a dry hole for sixty years, Roger said.
Suzie really turned heads—could have been in the movies.
Did he discover he'd been taken and was then too embarrassed to discuss it?
Who else had been staying at Bird Song throughout this whole business?
Ralph's been dead for years and a son runs the business now.
And while he isn't sure exactly where it was staged, there's a possibility he might have been in the same theatrical company that played Ouray, went broke and left their gear in storage.
The siren must have been one of them.
While sleep was only partially suspended and Dean's fantasy returned, morning brought the news that the noise had been real—Pumpkin Green had left in the night, bumping his shopping cart down the stairs to a clandestine exit.
How long has Martha been missing?
A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.
Dean told him she hadn't been located.
She peered behind them, as if searching to see if he'd been followed.
Dean had run Fred's prints, but as Fred pointed out, it had been many years ago.
There wasn't any liquor at the accident site when I left and you said a bottle had been found.
He knows radio contact should have been made when Billy died.
I gave them a few dollars for the land they've been fighting over.
You two have been great.
I had made up my mind to just leave after I came here tonight and not say anything, but you've both been so nice, I shouldn't be so selfish.
He knew I was adopted by my stepfather, but he wasn't sure what I'd been told, so he just kept quiet.
The black man, the passenger spotted in the stolen Buick, had been apprehended when he returned to the vehicle to retrieve his overnight satchel.
He claimed to have been picked up by Patsy Boyd while hitchhiking down state.
Then the body might have been there for much, much longer.
Both Fitzgerald and the redhead are AWOL— been gone since before lunch.
Ain't neither of 'em been around here all afternoon and they were scheduled for duty.
He had no right to invade the privacy of her bedroom either, in spite of having been invited into its sanctum on his previous visit.
Do you think Fitzgerald was involved with that skeleton in the mine—what you've been calling 'Martha's bones'?
Then he added, You might have better luck learning who's been trying to buy the worthless mine and who at Bird Song swiped the itsy-bitsy bone you found.
As soon as Dean said it, he realized he had been a little too hasty with his request.
There had been little enough to celebrate recently.
Calling Mrs. Langstrom would probably have been their best lead, but that was out of the question.
Yes, Pumpkin had been there and Westlake had spoken to him briefly.
There's been some anonymous phone calls over Billy Langstrom's death.
Martha, dressed exactly as she had been when she'd left, clutched her new suitcase while the barest hint of a smile graced her pretty face.
Eyes widened when she learned someone had pilfered the small finger bone from Cynthia's bureau and she shivered when told the Deans had been followed into the mine.
It's been a busy time for Fred since you left.
The nagging question of Fitzgerald continued to block out the other important matters Dean should have been concentrating on.