Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've been to disability Scotland |
| 2 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
| 3 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 4 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 5 | Paul says it 's a sport for all the youngest who 's been in a raft is 5 … the oldest is 95 … anyone can come and see what it 's like playing in whitewater |
| 6 | While 39 per cent of those unemployed for up to six months were manual workers , this group made up almost half the unemployed who had been without work for between two and three years . |
| 7 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 8 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 9 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 10 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 11 | And how painful it 's been at times to love you . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 13 | Any form of limited franchise , such as that which had been in operation since 1815 , was a direct affront to the principles of 1789 , which had declared the people to be sovereign . |
| 14 | Essential oils , expensive patent ‘ cures ’ , anti-cellulite creams and tough massage alone can not shift cellulite — especially that which has been in the hips and thighs for many years . |
| 15 | Trainer Peter Beaumont is keen to get a run into the seven-year-old who has been off the track since narrowly going down to 40-1 shock winner Sibton Abbey last month . |
| 16 | How fortunate we have been over the years in our efforts to help this cause , for yet again the story is one of sunshine , success and soaring profits . |
| 17 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 18 | The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way . |
| 19 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 20 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 21 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 22 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 23 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 24 | ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly . |
| 25 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 26 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 27 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 28 | The first withdrawal of US troops began on Jan. 2 with the return of about 300 troops to the USA , and as of Jan. 7 a total of 3,300 troops had returned home , out of a total of 26,000 who had been in Panama . |
| 29 | The warm feeling induced by the spirit made her aware of how cold she had been since hearing the news . |
| 30 | Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN . |