Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It has been a marvellous season for me and everyone has been really pleased with my progress . |
| 2 | The new format of the double morning services is working well and everyone has been very co-operative . |
| 3 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 4 | I have just completed a round of visits to most of the fund raising regions in England and Wales and I 've been most impressed by the preparations that are underway to prepare for our seventy fifth birthday . |
| 5 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 6 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 7 | What er , is this not out of true , by my visits to various homes , and I 've been very impressed with the , the er , general conditions , the care , er , of the residents and everything else . |
| 8 | Like the pram , it is sturdy and well made , and I 've been very pleased with it . |
| 9 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 10 | I could not see the female but , as I was raised to their shoulders , I caught a glimpse of my happy home , that cave where Elsbeth and I had been so content . |
| 11 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 12 | ‘ Except that Sir John and I have been most zealous in this matter . |
| 13 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 14 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 15 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 16 | I think a lot of the thoughts of Donald Steel have commonsense logic , and I have been much impressed by the work of Bob Cupp , the designer of East Sussex National and whose new courses , Settindown Creek and Reynolds Plantation , I was able to play during my trip to the U.S. These courses can be long but they are of generous width and , from forward tees , are playable for players of all standards . |
| 17 | And the beginning of Lucy and her had been lyrically beautiful , the stuff that dreams are made of . |
| 18 | Which way round had they come , and which had been most important to the killer ? |
| 19 | The wing of Solidarity which had supported Tadeusz Mazowiecki , the outgoing Prime Minister , in the first round and which had been very critical of Walesa during the campaign , also urged — albeit with no great enthusiasm — that voters should support Walesa . |
| 20 | In Jacques 's view the indivisibility of town and country in liberal adult education might lead naturally to the formation of a county federation of WEA branches as had occurred elsewhere in the District and which had been entirely beneficial to the growth of adult education . |
| 21 | As we poked away at the goulash soup with its lumps of pork and potato and which had been interestingly seasoned with caraway , Ladislav wanted to know my impressions of what I had seen and , in particular , my own attitudes to Marxism . |
| 22 | The influence of this critical forum has been exerted , above all , in the pages of Early music , a journal which was founded in London in 1973 to build a bridge between performers and scholars and which has been uniquely successful in doing so . |
| 23 | And you 've been out one day . |
| 24 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 25 | I expect auntie has told you everything and you have been too busy to come , but please come now . |
| 26 | ‘ And you have been more quick-witted than even I expected . ’ |
| 27 | There is no reduction from Central Government from last year to from this year , to next year , and you have been totally unrealistic , the two of you , the labour and the liberal parties after May , erm , we 've got ta this , we 've got ta that . |
| 28 | I have no right and you have been very generous , Fred , Uncle Steve and the boys and Gertie ca n't understand why you did n't come here with us , Gert only said this morning that you ought to be here , your place is with us , but do n't think I am not grateful . |
| 29 | He reminded Sharpe of Jules , the miller 's son from Seleglise , who used to help Sharpe with Lucille 's flock of sheep and who had been so excited when Napoleon returned to France . |
| 30 | Greek theologians who had been trained in Italy and who had been very impressed by Aquinas and his Aristotelian Christianity were opposed and defeated by St Gregory Palamas , who refused to consider God in any sense as a concept , however inspiring , that could be rationally discussed and analysed . |