Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know Alan from the England set-up , and everyone has always been impressed with his work . ’ |
| 2 | and I 'd always been sorry that my dad told us , you know . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 4 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 5 | They 're not actually erm , using the D S O , and I 've just been involved in the |
| 6 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
| 7 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
| 8 | But as I say , I 've never seen anything , and I 've never been able to find anybody who can provide that answer for me . |
| 9 | I am aware of the difficult times that other theatre companies who actually face in this moment in time and I am very grateful when I and I 've always been grateful to the Harlow Council for the funding of the Council has given to the theatre , has given to the theatre over the years . |
| 10 | The first pair of real hiking boots I ever had were Daisy Roots and I 've always been impressed by their comfort . |
| 11 | And I 've always been mature for my age . ’ |
| 12 | More likely the net was carried away because the ground was bone dry and hard and I had n't been able to push the stakes deep enough into the soil . |
| 13 | Michelangelo , da Vinci , Bellini , Caravaggio , Bernini — half the world 's art treasures in one country , and I had n't been able to travel beyond the walls of the Victoria and Albert . |
| 14 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 15 | and I have not been rebellious … |
| 16 | and I have not been rebellious ; |
| 17 | Roy Pointer : ‘ I have been asking for over ten years that there needs to be some bold plans , mission strategy , developed within the denominations and I have not been aware of any until now . |
| 18 | If I want to talk personally with my father about something and am admitted to him , he talks for an hour about something or other and then the time of the talk is over and I have not been able to say what I had wanted to say . |
| 19 | It was just as well because the back boiler in the kitchen split in two about fifteen years ago and I have n't been able to light a fire in the grate since . |
| 20 | Please can you tell me the name of the director , because he also directed Such Good Friends , and I have n't been able to remember his name ? " |
| 21 | I used to have three but I lost three sheep down when they built the university , and I have n't been able to find them , so I thought that they 'd be useful to try and locate them , you know . |
| 22 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
| 23 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 24 | Fenella and I have always been close . |
| 25 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
| 26 | I rise to support the motion moved in Mr name and I have always been opposed to fox hunting full stop . |
| 27 | I usually stand up when a lady enters the room ( if the lady in question is one of those battling Berthas from Bermondsey who staff the Informer office , her subsequent confusion delights me ) , and I have always been anxious to place my education and superior talents at the service of the Radical Left . |
| 28 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 29 | Cases of the latter type , where the adjective is used only to aid identification and does not actually apply to the entity of the phrase , closely resemble the great bulk of noun + noun phrases in their structural value , examples such as : ( 11 ) army manoeuvres the piano factory a sea monster an angle bracket However , even among noun + noun phrases , certain specimens occur which are clearly analogous to the former type ; as in : ( 12 ) a doctor journalist ( or doctor-journalist ) Chancellor Kohl a bed-settee These would permit an affirmative answer to our diagnostic test , although normally it is necessary to allow a little leeway in the shape of an added determiner to allow for this requirement of English : ( 13 ) Maurice is a journalist and he is also a doctor 2.3 It would be useful to have names for the two types of adjectival use , and there are fortunately two terms available which fall in the right semantic area and which have not been pre-empted for any other widely accepted technical linguistic purpose . |
| 30 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |