Example sentences of "[verb] [been] worth [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been worth every penny we have spent and every tear we have shed . |
| 2 | I once saw a painted picture of something like it in the Rockefeller Centre — must have been worth a million dollars or more — but we never had anything like that , so that mountain was my art , something beautiful and eternal . |
| 3 | Might have been worth a thousand ! |
| 4 | Cos the carpet must have been worth a bloody fortune anyway ! |
| 5 | That alone would have been worth the scramble round the cliff path . |
| 6 | But when a lawyer asserts that A can sue B , what he means is that A can sue B , successfully ; if he meant his words to be taken literally , they would not have been worth the uttering . |
| 7 | His parental maxim , ‘ if you do not serve others , you will not have been worth the upbringing ’ , is reflected in her dedication to a life of service to humanity . |
| 8 | But without her virtue , even if she had been beautiful , she would n't have been worth the weight of her little toe in dross . |
| 9 | Constructionally , I did n't make the tables easy for myself , but the detailing seems to have been worth the extra time spent . |
| 10 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 11 | She 'd learned about that back when she was Jessamyn Amanda and nine-year-olds had been worth a gallon of potable water on the streets of the NoGo . |
| 12 | She had n't really thought he would agree to stay in the car , but it had been worth a try . |
| 13 | It had been worth every minute of the effort they had put into it . |
| 14 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 15 | SHe knew it was unlikely SHe could count on Alix 's discretion , but the need for medical backup had been worth the disclosures . |
| 16 | By the time Mr Carlisle arrived in the right Roman town days after the original date for the hearing he was left wondering if it had been worth the bother . |
| 17 | It had been worth the risk . |
| 18 | Only an agreed statement of his rights vis-à-vis the Christians of the Ottoman Empire would have convinced him that the game had been worth the candle . |
| 19 | They are very , very , very quick indeed and very , very efficient , and this is why , since the War London has been the centre of the recording industry , simply because it 's been worth the while for Americans in recording companies , for example , to record in London rather than anywhere else because we are so efficient . |