Example sentences of "[verb] [be] in love " in BNC.
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| 1 | From an early age Haflor Ferdinandson has been in love with 4WD vehicles . |
| 2 | I think anyone who has been in love will like this movie . |
| 3 | ‘ As for Harry — he has been in love before . |
| 4 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 6 | He 'd been in love with Arianna , you could hear it in his voice . |
| 7 | would you agree the ninety three of you , is that what characterises being in love , temporary madness ? , any other , no well what then ? , yes |
| 8 | But he could n't possibly have been in love with her ! ’ |
| 9 | Could he ever have been in love with her ? |
| 10 | The thought did come to his mind a week or so later that she might have been in love with him , but it seemed a ludicrous idea as well as self-congratulatory , and he put it by . |
| 11 | Some fairy must have been in love with your father . |
| 12 | Improbable as it was , he must have been in love with her . |
| 13 | She must have been in love with Ven even then without knowing it . |
| 14 | Do you think being in love is let's call it the mating instinct , is being in love merely the mating instinct operating , button one for yes and button two for no , let's er , let's seal that little lust abate there , well forty seven say yes basically I suppose basically being in love is lust , fifty three say no and what about that , that other point , I mean should you marry for love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , should you marry for love ? well what very modern people you are , cos eighty two of you said yes , fifteen said no , who said no ? |
| 15 | Once again , Arthurian legend underlay the idea of the Order , but the adoption of the garter as its symbol was said in later years to have occurred when , at a ball at Calais in 1348 , the Countess of Salisbury dropped her garter and the king , who was rumoured to have been in love with her , picked it up and in the face of derisive cries from the onlookers put it on his own knee with the remark , ‘ Honi soit qui mal y pense ’ — shame upon him who thinks ill of it . |
| 16 | The man I love is in love with someone else . |
| 17 | So she ran through those utterly devastating transformations when she had been In Love , desperately seeking patterns , pointers — digging for something to bring back her joy , her I will survive . |
| 18 | That is to say , Tolkien 's stories could be said to be an embodiment of that Northernness with which Lewis and Greeves had been in love since early adolescence . |
| 19 | Diana had been in love with Prince Charles for several years , since their first meeting when she was a sixteen-year-old home from school for half-term and he was her elder sister 's boyfriend . |
| 20 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 21 | She was the beautiful lady with whom Orsino had been in love , at the beginning ; then — |
| 22 | Yes , they had been in love once , that was before they had children . |
| 23 | She had been in love with Alexander . |
| 24 | From the very start , he had been in love with her , following her act around the clubs . |
| 25 | ‘ I want to see the traction engines in a minute , ’ said Betty , looking round ; but Lydia knew that she really wanted to see Beuno , since it was n't long since she herself had been in love and she recognised the signs . |
| 26 | She had projecting teeth and told everyone who would listen that she had been in love with Yorick since she was twelve . |
| 27 | The third was to talk to the man who had been in love with Irene Pitt . |
| 28 | Of course she had been in love , for years and years , and perhaps , she sometimes wondered , that experience had spoiled her . |
| 29 | And Arianna had been in love with him , or at least , she 'd thought she was , until he 'd begun taking over her life . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been in love with new clothes ever since I can remember . |