Example sentences of "'ve been [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , I have been cos I 've been bored really so all I do is study . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been fortunate enough to work with the likes of Joe Mercer and Jack Charlton and I know my place in a football club . |
| 3 | Er , I 've been fortunate enough to share in some of that work with you and I know how much work 's been involved . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been good today — very good . ’ |
| 5 | So you 've been good then . |
| 6 | Thank you very much Mr President and as you 've been friendly enough to invite me and given me such a friendly welcome , I , I thought I ought to risk speaking to you as candidly as I can about what is going on in our country and our communities at the moment and whether by the end of the thing I continue your friend is another matter . |
| 7 | If you 've been impressed so far , you 'll be pleased to know that there 's even more to discover when you see the new Moffat Discovery for yourself . |
| 8 | In the present she mostly enjoyed herself , or had so far : ‘ I 've been sad so often yet from day to day I 've enjoyed everything that was going . ’ |
| 9 | Tony you 've been married before , you have three children , you know want to marry Alaina there . |
| 10 | ‘ Leonora , does the fact that I 've been married before put you off the thought of becoming my wife ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been asleep almost an hour . |
| 12 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 13 | Tell me this , ’ Doctor Staples asked , ‘ you 've been depressed lately , am I right ? |
| 14 | I 've been depressed before , at not having a job I suppose . |
| 15 | You 've been wrong before . ’ |
| 16 | Er I 've been able just this week to set up a little er programme at er at work whereby er I have a list of all the newspapers and T Vs and radio stations on a file , and I can tap in a press release , press the button and it would fax them all one after the other , to the various interested bodies . |
| 17 | I 've been staggered now . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , Gran ; you know you 've been bad so often during your life … . ’ |
| 19 | April is a particularly heavy month , so I 've been ultra-selective here . |
| 20 | Yes I I 've been busy today . |
| 21 | They 've been popular there . |
| 22 | If there are fewer than four , or this piece stops here , I 've been red-penned again : |
| 23 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 24 | But I 've been stuck here for ages . |
| 25 | They 've been stuck together for hours . ’ |
| 26 | I 've been single again for eight long years . ’ |
| 27 | we 've been glad we 've been glad now have n't we er |
| 28 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been patient enough , ’ he snarled . |
| 30 | You 've been kind enough to answer my rather specific questions . |