Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 2 | ‘ If you had n't been asleep all this time , you 'd know that we are nearly there . ’ |
| 3 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 4 | Been dry all day . |
| 5 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 6 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 7 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 8 | ‘ I actually think that people in a democracy respect a leader who will say I have not been right all the way along the line . |
| 9 | These are the forecasts of ace City analyst Nick Knight — and he has been right all the way through sterling 's crisis . |
| 10 | The Daily Mirror has been right all along in accusing Pakistani cricketers of obtaining extra swing over the years through illegally roughening one side of the ball by scratching it with fingernails or even ripping the red leather surface . |
| 11 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 12 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 13 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 14 | Her last waking thought had been that she was wrong , and that Ace had been right all the time . |
| 15 | Such evidence is now beginning to appear and I believe that my hon. Friends and I will be proved to have been right all along in our predictions of the effect of the student loan scheme . |
| 16 | Her teacher had been right all those years ago , reflected Busacher . |
| 17 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 18 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 19 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 20 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 21 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 22 | Absolutely cruising when falling two out in last year 's contest , the chestnut has also been below-par this term , but freshened by a three-month break , can arrive fast and late to claim the crown . |
| 23 | It 's been interesting these past few days to watch the energy of the sun through the effect that it 's had on the snow . |
| 24 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |
| 26 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 27 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 29 | Tolonen had not been wrong all those years ago when he had recognised this in Karr . |
| 30 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |