Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] been [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
| 2 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 3 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 4 | I must be good I 've been round your mum every day but I have n't got it . |
| 5 | Rupert had never met Everard 's mother , but remembering his own mother and how comforting she had been in his childhood illnesses he was immediately reassured . |
| 6 | Of their evening together , of how forthcoming he 'd been with his information . |
| 7 | Only a Review/Recall Stage at the end will determine how successful you have been in your reading . |
| 8 | He reminisced how loyal he had been to his firm and how cruel he felt was his reward . |