Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Sorry I have n't been great company . |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry I have n't been able to get Sergeant Henley for you . |
| 3 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm afraid I have n't been able to make a proper examination . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , none of the pigments is question are used in the manufacture of Rexel Derwent products , pastels included , and because of this it has not been necessary to issue warnings with Derwent products . |
| 7 | However , none of the pigments is question are used in the manufacture of Rexel Derwent products , pastels included , and because of this it has not been necessary to issue warnings with Derwent products . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | All they had ever been able to do in the face of violence was to bend to it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward . |
| 13 | The consumer has had little or no choice in the matter : without organic food widely available it has not been possible to choose to avoid creating nitrate pollution by avoiding conventionally grown crops ( in any case , organic farming can still create some nitrate pollution , see also below ) . |
| 14 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 15 | ‘ Since I became pregnant he has n't been interested in me ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There had not been many Prussians at the bridge , for at best they had only been supposed to delay the French advance . |
| 18 | I 'm pretty certain he has n't been married . ’ |