Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [pers pn] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 2 | Not so long ago she had been loved and cherished with the world at her feet , now she was a woman alone . |
| 3 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 4 | So far anyway they 've been excellent I must say . |
| 5 | So far today they have been studying how orders for an operation are given and the particular way in which the Army goes about explaining a complex undertaking . |
| 6 | So well actually I 've been robbed you got your own villas . |
| 7 | As I feel so well now I have been able to sort out the problems with my husband and we now feel that we have got back the relationship we got married to share . |
| 8 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 9 | All too often they have been segregated from their peers to form ‘ remedial ’ classes — just as disruptive children have . |
| 10 | er , which just as well we 've been there before |
| 11 | Just as well I 've been staying out the way . |
| 12 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 13 | For far too long you 've been hiding your light under a bushel . |
| 14 | Just as well so late I 've been waiting for to come . |
| 15 | Well so far I 've been successful . |
| 16 | I was shown round the building although there was a performance on by a very pleasant elderly doorman who 's not here any more I 've been coming ever since . |
| 17 | In addition , having had several days in which to think about it , she could see quite clearly how it had been responsible for the problems which had been harassing her all her life . |
| 18 | Yet even here she had been so far weak , so far selfish , in concealing her violent and terrible feelings , her destructive misery , her rage . |
| 19 | Thank you very much well I 've been very pleased to make those points relating to the leader of the council . |
| 20 | Non-availability is an idea deeply embedded in the Christian tradition of celibacy ; though for too long now it has been seen as renunciation by men of sinful life , rather than as a radical statement by women . |