Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was mean-minded enough to wish it had been for longer . |
| 2 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 3 | We 're just saying what 's been on our minds for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 6 | Under Clifford , Palmer bided his time , keeping to himself his misgivings about the governor 's achievements in centralization , and exerting himself openly only to oppose Clifford 's proposal that lawyers should be allowed to plead in the provincial courts , thereby unacceptably diluting what had been under Lugard the Resident 's almost unrestricted jurisdiction over them . |
| 7 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 8 | Emily , swimming vigorously , came to assist her , and together they managed to reach shallow water , where Gwendolen promptly denied she had been in danger . |
| 9 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 10 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 11 | Their forensic tests could probably prove it had been around your neck and in my pocket , but it 's been badly mistreated as a piece of evidence . ’ |
| 12 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 13 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 14 | You wo n't even know somebody 's been into your houses . |
| 15 | ‘ Wigan will certainly know they 've been in a game . |
| 16 | , see I got very pally with old , , we use to play snooker together that 's how I first met him and then we went there , and I never knew he 'd been in the cos I transferred to the R E's you see . |