Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind .
2 erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married .
3 It involves visits to the homes of children who are either convicted offenders , children at special risk , or who have recently been involved in trouble and have come to the attention of the police .
4 Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize .
5 Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry .
6 The war situation has also had an influence in the deterioration of education because there are places — especially in the rural areas — where there has n't been any normality in schools for years .
7 Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile .
8 No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact .
9 Neither oor Joy nor me have ever been handy .
10 Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’
11 In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it .
12 sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad
13 Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country .
14 And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials .
15 ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept .
16 Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes .
17 Oh she probably heard that I had not been well
18 This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before .
19 It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here .
20 It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football .
21 It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent .
22 Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche .
23 ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) .
24 We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again .
25 Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination .
26 It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope .
27 The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 .
28 There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life .
29 After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it .
30 My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often .
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