Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , when I did , I thought it was purely a physical dependence I 'd been afraid of , because I was so slow to understand . |
| 2 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
| 3 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 4 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |
| 5 | In hindsight , if I had been aware of the exact nature of the Foreign Legion , how it operated , and how its members lived , I would have been much more hesitant about joining . |
| 6 | I had been afraid of her at Oxford where she had been a quick , intense , thundery girl who rarely bothered to talk to other women . |
| 7 | That was what I had been afraid of . |
| 8 | I 've been tired of it for years … |
| 9 | For years , I 've been ashamed of my body . |
| 10 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 11 | Oh , I 've been aware of your fears , child . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sure there are , but I can quite honestly say that you 're the first one I 've been aware of , or who 's made such a marked impression on me after so short an acquaintance . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been suspicious of him since he first arrived . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been frightened of cows ever since , ’ said Mrs Monro , and I thought — her memories do n't even have the moth . |
| 15 | Hell , in one day I 've been jealous of a sour-faced moron like Dave Fernie and of a little tub of lard like Marcus Felstead ! |
| 16 | ‘ It 's what I 've been afraid of . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been afraid of hurting Eva , of hurting Margaret , and most of hurting myself . ’ |
| 18 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 19 | In the past , I have been guilty of reinforcing this icon ; now I am committed either to destroying it or affecting major reconstructions . |
| 20 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |
| 21 | I have been full of hate of men like you . |
| 22 | ‘ At Manchester United I have been top of the table in April and still lost it . |
| 23 | Ever since the Which ? team carried out what I considered to be some very unscientific trials comparing blood , fish and bone fertiliser with Growmore a while ago , I have been suspicious of their methods . |
| 24 | As an islander I can see something of both points of view , and I have been aware of a sense of embarrassment in some of my Faroese friends that the outside world should think of them as ‘ barbarians ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 26 | ‘ This is potentially one of the most exciting developments I have been aware of in my experience of pancreatic cancer . ’ |
| 27 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 28 | The struggle to understand everything showed clearly on her face , and slowly , surely , she found a ray of hope in the mess , something to compensate for the painful discovery that she 'd been ignorant of her own roots . |
| 29 | To tell him the truth — that she 'd been afraid of the depth of her own feelings — would be far too revealing . |
| 30 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |