Example sentences of "[pron] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd none of them been lucky with men . |
| 2 | ‘ Fortunately I was strong , but had I been weak , I might have given in . |
| 3 | Have I been offensive ? |
| 4 | ‘ From you have I been absent in the spring ’ . |
| 5 | But if you start making proposals to Martha Pascoe on the strength of the fortune I been good enough to share with you , you can think again , 'cos you 'll have Harry Pascoe to content with . |
| 6 | Have I been asleep under a hedge with a strange man not my husband ? |
| 7 | ‘ How long have I been asleep ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Have I been asleep long ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I tell yer , Joe old cock , my bleedin' trouble is that I 'm misunderstood meself , I been sufferin' misunderstandin' all me life . |
| 10 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 11 | I been married for 11 months and my husband works away during the week so we only see each other at weekends . |
| 12 | I been flat on my back so I did n't go toilets and I 've got a sore bottom |
| 13 | At no time have I been able to see anything cither Nazi or necessarily homosexual in the listed pleasures , which are precisely of the kind which might occur in a George MacDonald fantasy . |
| 14 | Only lately , though , have I been able to get virtually one pulse through the entire work . |
| 15 | Nor have I been able to watch A Winter Too Many . |
| 16 | His twenty-one months as a prisoner of war at Karlsruhe would have been satisfactory , he later calculated , ‘ had I been able to bank them and draw them two or three weeks at a time whenever I wanted a respite from ordinary experience ’ . |
| 17 | Had I been able to come , I would have sought the union 's support our wish to see full advantage being taken in Wales of the CAP 's Agri-Environment Programme . |
| 18 | I might have broken my luck had I been able to get over the Alps on a raid to Turin on 11 June . |
| 19 | In retrospect , what I found fascinating at the time ( and this feeling has only increased with time and further thought ) was that all the crew just did what I would have told them had I been able to make contact with them . |
| 20 | have I been able to see a fight so clearly … |
| 21 | Sadly many of the views , expressed to me , have taken a negative or critical tone , and far too infrequently have I been able to pass on constructive or positive ideas and opinions . |
| 22 | She says ’ Had I been alone and not so near a phone box who is to say I would not have said yes . |
| 23 | ‘ Had I been big enough at the time , I would have beaten his ass but I was n't . |
| 24 | So your dad said well have n't I been soft ? |
| 25 | How long have I been sick ? ’ |
| 26 | Not only have I been unable to identify any such ritual — it would , for instance , be incorrect to interpret the shamanistic seance as practised by the Chewong in such terms — but other practices , analogous to eskimo dog beating as presented by Briggs ( 1970 ) are equally absent . |
| 27 | It is hard to think that Anselm did not feel some indignation on reading these words , which implied that he had read too much into Urban II's decree , and that Paschal had not himself been present when those words were spoken . |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps you are right , ’ he said , with the air of one who had himself been convinced . |
| 29 | Their baby Charlie was born in 1989 and has himself been one of the show 's stars . |
| 30 | Another story — the charming Silford Hall tells of a happy visit which a little boy once paid to a country mansion , and how the kind housekeeper showed him round the picture gallery , and gave him a lovely dinner in the servants ' hall ; Crabbe had himself been that humble little boy . |