Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately . |
| 2 | ‘ The focus of my own emotions , ’ said Ian , ‘ is not , as I think Julia 's is , my family , whom I have always been fortunate enough to be able to take for granted , but rather is it the Church , about which I 'm unduly passionate . |
| 3 | Abse puts his faith in Heseltine , whom I have never been able to take seriously as a politician . |
| 4 | But by mentioning them I have perhaps been able to show that when theists talk of God as ‘ both far and near ’ , or as ‘ visible and unseen ’ , they are not guilty of a simple contradiction in terms . |
| 5 | I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man . |
| 6 | I I have always been worried about the personalization of er what I believe is the great traditions in the Tory party . |
| 7 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 8 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 9 | I myself have often been surprised at how quickly so many people feel the benefit . |
| 10 | She makes a sort of crackling noise which I 've never been able to explain : it may be contentment — or perhaps she 's asking for more . |
| 11 | The nightmares stopped instantly after this explanation , and I was able to give lectures , stand up for myself and speak in public — all of which I had never been able to do before . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Well , you 're very noisy when you come back for somebody who 's only been sociable , so you are . ’ |
| 13 | On Oct. 9 a special court in Lahore adjourned a hearing against her , at which she had again been present , reportedly to avoid making a ruling before the Oct. 24 elections . |
| 14 | The collector , then , will always examine the evidence that his book is complete in every respect and , as well as all the trimmings with which we have temporarily been preoccupied , will carefully test the completeness of the text itself . |
| 15 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 16 | Unified control to eliminate any danger of overlapping , for which there has already been one unfortunate instance . |
| 17 | ‘ On grass , ’ says Mr Hann , ‘ where you inject into wheel markings you get more damage , as the tine is being pulled through ground on which there has already been some surface shearing . |
| 18 | Microcomputers have been a rapid growth area in the electronics industry , as well as one in which there has recently been much concern over the success and viability of UK companies . |
| 19 | Three members of the audience were then selected at random and , having ascertained that they had no objection , were hypnotised and , while in the hypnotic state , were asked those questions which they had formerly been unable to answer . |
| 20 | The local gentry and others were presented for taking the deer , which they had probably been accustomed to do for generations with little interference . |
| 21 | Abolitionists were also therefore demanding direct intervention by the imperial government to end a species of property and override the role of local assemblies with which they had earlier been prepared to collaborate . |
| 22 | There was some shrapnel in one of his legs which they had never been able to get out . |
| 23 | I am sure she speaks for many people in the village who are alarmed and distressed at the school conflict , of which they have probably been aware only since the parents ' petition . |
| 24 | His approach was to try out ideas , with which he had already been successful , on other people and to listen to what came back — particularly from governors and senior staff . |
| 25 | He said he felt no pain , apart from injections which he has never been fond of , and when he came round from the operation the first thing he asked for was the Ipswich football scores and a drink . |
| 26 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 27 | These eight tasks of audit can not be carried out in smaller schools — schools in which it has never been possible to develop subject differentiation to the same degree as in larger schools . |
| 28 | Shortly , Colinetta claims that she herself has never been envious nor has she spread scandal , though evidently others behave in this way . |
| 29 | No , I know , I do n't mean owt , owt wrong but I just ca n't remember these two names , I do n't know why , there 's something I 've never been able to , cos I 've always said to you ai n't I ? |
| 30 | It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time . |