Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 2 | Catering to the needs of the poor would hardly have doubled the number of London architects in twenty years ( from just over 1,000 to 2,000 — in the 1830s there had probably been fewer than one hundred ) , though building and renting slum property could be a very lucrative business , judged by the income per cubic foot of low-cost space . |
| 3 | For all this he has ever been grateful for his uncles , careful considerations — as his father 's executors — of his family , and especially of their kindness towards him personally . |
| 4 | The only lodgings James had been able to afford were so squalid he had scarcely been able to concentrate on his studies for the cold each winter , and the thought of a house and a wife to warm his bed had been added incentive to pursue marriage plans with Maud Rollerson . |
| 5 | The previous one had never been clean before the next one arrived ; they had had dummies shoved in their mouths to keep them quiet until they were four or five ; and they crawled , ran and fell around the place — filthy , whining and hungry — until Onyx was forced to give them some of the attention they needed . |
| 6 | Until 1975 there had never been formal , regular board meetings , merely ad hoc occasions when , for example , they needed to fire someone . |
| 7 | Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life . |
| 8 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 9 | Between 1974 and 1986 there had also been two tiers in Greater London and the six metropolitan counties in England , but this position was changed from 1 April 1986 , when the upper-tier authorities were abolished . |
| 10 | A lack of social support at the first interview was found to be associated with the presence of psychiatric symptoms ( GHQ scores ) at the second interview among those who had initially been well ( GHQ score less than 4 ) . |
| 11 | Former athletes who took no further exercise were found to have the same risk factor for a heart attack as those who had never been active . |
| 12 | The embarrassment of the British establishment in December 1989 , caused a great deal of well-deserved Schadenfreude among those who had always been sceptical about the Ceauşescus . |
| 13 | For those who have already been married , there had been pre-marital cohabitation by 62 per cent of women remarrying aged under 25 years , and 74 per cent remarrying between 25 and 34 years . |
| 14 | For those who have never been involved in the arts the exchange offers a wide range of opportunities to invest money with the aim of obtaining hard currency under a transfer deal system . |
| 15 | We need to ensure that the management of community care is improved to meet the needs of those who are discharged from hospitals and , more particularly , of those who have never been long-stay patients in our hospitals for the mentally ill . |
| 16 | Peter married a woman with two sons , aged non and 12. he had always been impressed by the boys ' good behaviour and had n't realised it was because their mother hits them whenever they do the slightest thing wrong . |
| 17 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 18 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 19 | Since the urban middle-class exodus to the countryside began in earnest in the 1950s there have typically been two issues over which such conflict has been generated : housing and the environment . |