Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been aware [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
| 2 | I had been aware on visits of the changes she had brought into the house , in the food which was more elaborate , recipes culled from women 's magazines , the odd touches about the place , the fact that the bowl full of bulbs was placed on a mat , there were extra arm covers on the chairs , a lace cloth on the chest of drawers in my room , everything had to be protected . |
| 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 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 7 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 8 | Oh , I 've been aware of your fears , child . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |
| 13 | ‘ This is potentially one of the most exciting developments I have been aware of in my experience of pancreatic cancer . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | All evening she 'd been aware of him not only as the uncle of the delinquent who had abducted Suzie , but also on a separate level she had no wish to analyse . |
| 16 | All during the meal , she 'd been aware of his eyes on her across the table , the warmth in them as tangible as a caressing hand . |
| 17 | Nor could she have been aware of the matey tap with which the russet radical awoke the aforementioned scribe in the morning , a cup of tea grasped in his proletarian fist . |
| 18 | She had n't moved or made a sound , just opened her eyes in the red-tinged darkness and seen him there without surprise as if she had been aware of his presence ever since he arrived . |
| 19 | She had been aware of poverty in the Third World . |
| 20 | But , city dweller as she had always been , she had been aware of every sound — the gentle lapping noises of the canal against the side of the boat , the small night sounds of birds and other creatures , and it had been some time before weary body and brain relaxed . |
| 21 | And then , quite suddenly , over Ryan 's shoulder , she had been aware of a tall dark figure watching her . |
| 22 | He had kept out of her way while she 'd been interviewing but she had been aware of where he was all the time . |
| 23 | For a few yards now she had been aware of a car cruising behind her . |
| 24 | If we had been aware of the remarks , I suppose it might have been better not to have made the appointment . ’ |
| 25 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 26 | We have been aware of the dangers of over-confidence and losing touch with our clients , who are here because of the ability of the agency . ’ |
| 27 | He went on : ‘ From our first corporate audit , we have been aware of the need to reflect adequately the particular constraints and practical day-to-day problems that many regions experience in the fields of HSE compliance . |
| 28 | Alex Bell , CastleCourt 's manager , said : ‘ We have been aware of this problem but are satisfied it does apply to us . |
| 29 | As Ari and Nathan went through the shop , Roirbak remembered with mixed feelings that Zambia and Tammuz might still be in there , and then wondered if some evil part of him had been aware of that all along . |
| 30 | Some parents even said they had been aware of being watched for some considerable time . |