Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb base] [adv] been " in BNC.

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1 where I 've never been , and , on the wall ,
2 Do n't forget that you 've got an allowance each , and it 's not likely to affect many people , except where you 've perhaps been left something that you want to dispose of or a property that you want to dispose of , in which case there could be a capital gains liability .
3 in the kitchen , where you have never been .
4 The Ludicrous lads may lambast Carter for ‘ boldly going where we 've already been ’ on their new album , but another track , ‘ Bloody Proud ’ , bristles with blatant Fall references , including a riff suspiciously akin to ‘ Could n't Get Ahead ’ .
5 Not with Abraham , but back where we have already been , in the World of God 's making and the Garden of his planting .
6 A large proportion of the children have been referred to the school from mainstream schools where they have frequently been seen as having severe behaviour problems .
7 There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany .
8 Although I 've always been saying that the lower ranked players should get more money , and we should re-distribute the money .
9 Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt .
10 He had n't really kicked her in the face ; you 've got to draw the line somewhere , although I 've never been exactly sure where .
11 I do sometimes go down to 2½lb , but although I have never been broken on it I never feel as confident as I ought .
12 ‘ I was a Classic in my youth , madam , and although I have always been deeply interested in the works of the Roman poets and the Roman historians I have never been able to summon up much enthusiasm for Roman architecture .
13 I feel more tied down than I 've ever been before .
14 I 'm keeping at 11 stones and am fitter than I 've ever been .
15 I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life .
16 ‘ I 'm fitter than I 've ever been in my life .
17 We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been .
18 And compared to me she 's a much better person than I 've ever been , she is , she 's wonderful , in , but granddad 's got a nice nature , granddad and that 's , that 's probably where she get 's it from , I 'm not .
19 ‘ I would n't want you to feel that I am any less dedicated than I have ever been . ’
20 ‘ I am happier with Gwen than I have ever been in my life — I love her very deeply and I miss her when I 'm not there . ’
21 ‘ I moved here in September so I have only been here a short time and we have had a lot of changes in the past because of the moves Eric has made , ’ she says .
22 ‘ For four years before being appointed full time I sat as a recorder so I have really been sitting in the crown court for 17 years , ’ said Mr Hewitt , whose work on the North Eastern Circuit has taken him to courts from Humberside to the Scottish and Lancashire borders .
23 ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money .
24 What we 're trying to do is say look , you are senior people in this company because although you 've only been here a short period of time , but you 're still very senior people .
25 First , you should recognize that you need to be much more self-reliant than you 've ever been before .
26 ‘ And a better son he is to me than you 've ever been a daughter ! ’ raged Lucier , whereupon Gabriel sat down in the mud and wept silently , his head clamped between his knees to shut out all sights and sounds .
27 ‘ If you do n't help me , I shall make you more miserable than you have ever been in your life .
28 ‘ We are more in love now than we 've ever been .
29 To our disbelief it was really very much more abundant than we could ever have thought possible , so we 've actually been able to find molecules with eleven carbon atoms in a chain , floating around in space , and for which we really at the present time have no explanation .
30 ‘ We have the best trained , the best qualified law enforcement officers that can be found in any major city in the world so we have always been able to maintain solid protection for our community without having the comparable size departments that other cities have , ’ he says .
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