Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] been such [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You 've always been such a good little girl . |
| 3 | You 've always been such a wonderful sister to me . |
| 4 | They had always been such an uncomplicated species before she had met Piers . |
| 5 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 6 | It is doubtful whether they had ever been such a serious liability to the Yorkist regime . |
| 7 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 8 | It had not been such a dull night after all , she mused , hoped Travis 's head would n't be too sore in the morning , then found that , whatever diversions might occur , once the excitement was over she was back to worrying about the wretched mortgage . |
| 9 | It had n't been such a cold night , what had happened ? |
| 10 | And it had all been such a long time ago ! |
| 11 | He felt a serious sympathy for the little ones looking like their own grandfathers ; he had probably been such a one himself . |
| 12 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 13 | Even if he had n't been such a good-looking chap , he was , by any standards , the only eligible man around . |
| 14 | If he had n't been such a lousy husband I might not have got myself in so deep … ’ |
| 15 | It 's not been such a great campaign for those formed by 1969 rather than 1968 ; in other words , for female journalists who were reared on Greer . |
| 16 | It 's just been such an awful couple of days . ’ |