Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] have been very " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that I had been very clumsy . |
| 2 | Six weeks later she reported back that she had been very well on holiday with no travel-sickness or stomach problems but since returning home the digestive symptoms had gradually increased in intensity . |
| 3 | She may be a spiteful piece , but there is no doubt that she has been very badly treated . |
| 4 | Erm but there will be a new set of tutorials provided for you because I think there 's a general recognition that you 've been very badly treated indeed er as regards this erm and they 're likely to be run by me in term three , okay ? |
| 5 | ‘ I understand that you have been very busy in Edinburgh asking many questions , poking your nose into matters that do not concern you . |
| 6 | ‘ David tells me that you have been very ill , ’ said Mrs Wallington . |
| 7 | [ to PAMELA ] Own that you have been very saucy and beg my pardon and I will try to pity you , for you are a sweet girl if you had but held out and been honest . |
| 8 | You know , that 's , that 's something that we 've been very careful about . |
| 9 | Later he said to me that we had been very helpful to him and he said it 's bad enough to be depressed but when you 're depressed and hungry , it 's really bad . |
| 10 | When asked if their shefi acted in too authoritarian a manner , some kolkhozniki at first said it was very rare , but then in peasant fashion slowly warmed up to the fact that they had been very angered by some young students who had written in Rabochii put ’ that their horses were badly fed and cleaned , and that they had not sown enough crops . |
| 11 | The chief ambulance officer , Mr Don Page , said last night that they had been very busy all day , and that their use would continue indefinitely — ‘ until ambulancemen and women in South Yorkshire resume normal working ’ . |
| 12 | Ladies often come to my classes and explain that they have been very good all week and yet had a binge just prior to the class ! |
| 13 | Some recent writers have tried to apply standards that are social rather than ethical , with the consequence that they have been very boring , and have made mistakes about individuals . |
| 14 | Giving evidence in court , he said that it had been very crowded because there had been a karaoke session before people started watching the boxing match . |
| 15 | In designing the system , NuTek says that it has been very careful to avoid any contact with former Apple employees , and kept under constant review the status of Apple patents and copyrights throughout the world . |
| 16 | So too an answer is needed to the question of whether the failure to manage the transfer of information and the joint planning of a continuous four-year scheme between two different phases and organizations of education has led to the achievement of less than was hoped for , regardless of the fact that it has been very heavily funded . |
| 17 | He says that it 's been very delicate work , but they think that they have found all the bones . |
| 18 | You would n't have heard of him , of course , but I used to read his articles to Daddy at one time , and I remember seeing in the papers that he had been very ill . |
| 19 | The students wondered if something had offended him , but later understood that he had been very depressed and had been still further depressed by the sight of everyone 's work . |
| 20 | Rod himself admits that he 's been very close to arrest . |
| 21 | The public may be assured that he has been very frequently engaged in what is gently termed gallantry and intrigue ; but yet these ( give me leave to call them capital crimes ) are not in the least considered in him as deserving of censure . |