Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going back to my family now , I 've always been the black one of the family . |
| 2 | anyway the girl said well I 'll ring first to see where you get your application form she , and the , Sue phoned and was on the other end and I said oh you should apparently you 've got have erm , er , application form and Mrs going to send you one , I said is that Mrs on the line she said is that Mrs speaking , she said yeah , I said will you tell it 's Mrs she said oh , well , tell Mrs she 's no need to apply I 've got all her details and she is being looked at , you know , we are looking into it anyway erm , as I say I had this letter just after Christmas to say that there was a job coming up at the Mencap at Wellingborough Road , Rushden , and I was being selected and erm would I go up for the informal interview on the Monday and the formal interview at the hospital the next morning , so I went up got the first person there and er she , she , it 's a new , it 's an old house but they 've done it all up and there all papers on the floor and then she said oh I think I 'll pick these up Ir Irene , I said oh call me Joy everybody does and she said alright , OK , I said oh I 'll help you so of course I said , I went straight down with her on the floor picking all these papers up and she , and when the next person come she said poor old Joy ai n't even got in the door and that 's it , she 's already working and she said I can see you 're like me Joy you 'll do a job when you see it 's got ta be done , I said I 've always been the same , I ca n't , I ca n't see a spoon or a bit of paper laying on the floor |
| 3 | I 've never been the same since he told me how he hated fey women . |
| 4 | Yeah , I 've never been the same since I was there you know |
| 5 | At no other time has either left or right been able to form a government without the support of the FOP , which has therefore been the essential junior partner in coalition either with the CDU/CSU or , less often , with the SPD . |
| 6 | This replaced section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 which had long been the main public order offence and which had been used in a wide range of situations including demonstrations , football hooliganism , " streaking " and industrial disputes . |
| 7 | The strict controls over our life at school , our terrible school uniform and the climate of East Yorkshire conspired against either of these sexual eventualities , which had apparently been the common run of existence in Trinidad . |
| 8 | The one which had once been the spare room she now occupied permanently . |
| 9 | During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the pace of Mediterranean commercial life slackened and the inland sea , which had once been the major artery of European trade , became a cul-de-sac . |
| 10 | The embodiment of such interactions , though not necessary to the understanding of the morning peak hour movements to work or education which have often been the primary focus of transport planning , is important to the understanding of other less straight-forward parts of the daily pattern of travel , which are important both to the travellers themselves and also to those concerned with the planning and provision of transport . |
| 11 | The research will thus deviate from the common run of ‘ community ’ studies which have hitherto been the main focus of anthropological research on ethnic minorities in Britain . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've always been the same , Lili , ’ said Robert . |
| 13 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 14 | She had always been the great friend of Noreen 's and of Liam too in his young days . |
| 15 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 16 | But in the folklore of Liverpool Police it was the ‘ bucks ’ who had always been the primary object of street powers . |
| 17 | He was reduced to a short old man who had once been the great painter Marius Durance . |
| 18 | You have always been the same , never do what you were … ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She 's always been the quiet one in the family . |
| 20 | And we 've never been the poor , in a proper sense . |
| 21 | Following lengthy pleadings with the bank manager , there has also been the delicate matter of explaining rampant construction costs to incredulous shareholders . |
| 22 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 23 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 24 | Where he drove , surrounded by cars and bicycles and mopeds and minibuses , there had once been the strained drone of Dakotas pulling gliders into the air for the flights to the bridges and crossroads behind the D-Day beaches of Normandy , and for the flights to the Dutch town of Arnhem . |
| 25 | There 's also been The Beautiful South 's New Lad reasonableness , Father Father 's virginal soul , and the English eccentricity of the aged Robyn Hitchcock . |
| 26 | There were , there 's always been the illegal er abortionist . |
| 27 | They 'd hardly been the first , he reflected . |
| 28 | They 've hardly been the best parents in the world , have they ? |
| 29 | They had obviously been the Russian barracks , with officers and men quartered there . |
| 30 | He has also been the main advocate of pluralism , and of not assuming there is only one correct interpretation of the past . |