Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him , after all ! |
| 2 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him . ’ |
| 3 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 4 | So I had been right about that . |
| 5 | I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years . |
| 6 | Obviously she 'd been lucky in what the travel agency had found for her , she thought approvingly as she glanced round the attractive room . |
| 7 | So she had been right about his mood ! |
| 8 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 9 | ‘ The breadth of knowledge and expertise which each person brings to the team is enormous and by working together we have been able in a short space of time to see the company woods from the departmental trees . ’ |
| 10 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 11 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 12 | On the walk back to Daphne 's flat Becky could n't help feeling a little guilty about deserting Charlie on his first night home and began to think perhaps it had been selfish of her to accept an invitation to go to a concert with Guy that night . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had been surprised to be greeted by an adult who did n't either admonish or cross-examine him . |
| 14 | So he had been churlish to Carol after all . |
| 15 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 16 | But generally it 's been unnecessary for us to have much contact . |
| 17 | Finally , stand back and have another look at the fish … is it really as good as you first thought , or have you become less impressed with it , the more you have been close to it ? |
| 18 | Their exploits have been greatly exaggerated by Burmese writers , but I do n't think British writers have adequately recognised the courage demanded to revolt , or possibly we have been jealous for the unswerving loyalty through defeat as well as victory of Karens , Kachins and Chins . |
| 19 | When her husband and daughter returned home they had been distressed at not finding Margaret . |
| 20 | Perhaps also she had been afraid of meeting Matthew . |
| 21 | Formerly he had been prone to pessimism , full of gloomy prognoses about over-population and wars , which would prevent mankind from ever fulfilling its dream of colonising other planets . |
| 22 | So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’ |
| 23 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 24 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 25 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 26 | And now I have been responsible for getting this man hanged . |
| 27 | For a few yards now she had been aware of a car cruising behind her . |
| 28 | So far we have been concerned with trying to understand something of the general reaction people have to various forms of loss , concentrating on the reactions people will discover in themselves when they or someone close to them is dying or has died . |
| 29 | So far we have been concerned with odours which affect the public at large , but consideration must also be given to the protection afforded by the law , to employees and other workers who may experience odours in their places of work , whether in a factory , office , shop , or educational establishment , etc . |
| 30 | So far we have been concerned with the dominant academic version of Marxist instrumentalism . |