Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb -s] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’ |
| 2 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 3 | Dave and I er were grabbed by the throat by em a woman and her husband from Worksop called and woman called Barbara , and she 's been involved with er a fella called Superintendent er in West Yorkshire . |
| 4 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |
| 5 | And she 's been happy ever since , bossing everybody around , playing the queen of the castle . |
| 6 | And he 's been invaluable in organizing the present conference . |
| 7 | He 's had a rotten deal from me and he 's been marvellous about it . |
| 8 | And he 's been able to invest it |
| 9 | And and come in on the , he came on the Tuesday and he 's been three days a couple of weeks so |
| 10 | These are the forecasts of ace City analyst Nick Knight — and he has been right all the way through sterling 's crisis . |
| 11 | The depth of our batting meant he had to wait longer than some , but he is a fiercely committed Lancastrian and he has been prepared to stay put and fight for a place instead of looking elsewhere for a regular spot . ’ |
| 12 | It is also notable that Bowen has been in the vanguard of interdisciplinary and international cooperation which has established the utility of amino acid dating , and he has been instrumental in establishing a laboratory for this purpose in the Department of Geography at the University College of Wales , Aberystwyth . |
| 13 | But Connors has taken no serious breaks from the game and its stylistic progress ; his game in itself has durable , idiosyncratic features ( whereas Borg 's became the prototype on which newcomers based their own playing patterns ) ; and he has been able to take his audience along with him through the very gradual decline in his competitive expectations . |
| 14 | The historian , Minois , has delved systematically into the changing status of older people in history , and he has been able to link these changes to the dominant social ideas and circumstances of the time . |
| 15 | The extent of these learning skills has been ingeniously studied for individual bees by Randolf Menzel in Berlin over the past two decades , and he has been able to clarify the role of many regions of the bee 's head ganglion . |
| 16 | And he has been busy . |
| 17 | Research and development costs £20,000 : these are sunk costs and it follows are irrelevant to the decision . |
| 18 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 19 | ‘ We were so looking forward to this trip and it 's been awful , ’ Rose whispered , sadly shaking her head . |
| 20 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 21 | ‘ Obviously I 'm hopeful of getting to Sweden and it 's been great to be involved with the England squad . ’ |
| 22 | And it 's been better since we 've been here . |
| 23 | and it 's been good fun , they do want to come back |
| 24 | erm I 'm very sad to be leaving Oxford , I 've very much enjoyed working here , and it 's been good to work for a council with such a high commitment to H I V , and to fighting Aids , and erm I very much the support I 've had from the committee and I hope it will continue erm in this way . |
| 25 | ‘ And it 's been six hours of torment for me . |
| 26 | My husband Kerry bought me the Boots one for £30 , and it 's been fabulous . |
| 27 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 28 | And it 's been such a relief to be able to speak about it openly for the first time . |
| 29 | And it 's been marvellous to keep going . |
| 30 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |