Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |
| 2 | She had always said she had never been a shop-girl and she was n't going to start now . |
| 3 | He seemed to inhabit his own world , set apart from them ; and Ruth hardly remembered it had once been her world too . |
| 4 | Children used to leave out hay for the kings ' horses and wake up to find it had mysteriously been replaced by presents . |
| 5 | ‘ I also feel we have all been treated shabbily . |
| 6 | A workman who put the goal posts up said they had only been temporarily secured . |
| 7 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |
| 8 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 9 | Heartily wishing she had never been provoked into volunteering that piece of information , Fabia did n't want him getting the idea that at twenty-two she could n't be a too well-seasoned journalist . |
| 10 | Hmm do n't think we 've ever been in |
| 11 | And the dance band they were actually number one that night and I do n't think they 've ever been heard since you know . |
| 12 | I do n't think she had really been hearing me till now . |
| 13 | I rarely go to her house and I do n't think she 's ever been to my flat , but our friendship is very much part of our working lives . |
| 14 | I do n't think I 've ever been so tired before or since as I was just that , that first year when we were probationer nurses . |
| 15 | I do n't think I 've ever been to , quite pleasant . |
| 16 | Er I do n't think I 've ever been . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't think I have ever been so frightened in my life , ’ said Terrie ( who is given to a little hyperbole at times ) . |
| 18 | I do n't think it has ever been done before , ’ said proud dad . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know you had ever been on the stage . ’ |
| 20 | I did n't know he 'd even been out the first time . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't believe I 've ever been unpleasant , ’ she returned , noting his easy use of her Christian name . |
| 22 | This is the sort of thing my mob is supposed to be ironing out and they dare n't admit they 've even been involved — except by whispering to people like Sprague . |
| 23 | You might feel a spontaneous urge to buy a particular present for a loved one and then find it has always been their secret wish . |
| 24 | Oh , I sometimes wish I had never been born ! ’ |