Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well he 's always been pleasant to me you got ta |
| 2 | Well he 's always been able to drink like that he 's . |
| 3 | ‘ Unfortunately he 's always been lightweight . ’ |
| 4 | Then he had also been astonished to find that some of Sheffield 's cutlery grinders earned from 18s ( 90p ) to £1 a week . |
| 5 | Yeah er attractive , anyway what was I saying , I was talking to her and she said that she 'd had a talk with Foxy and Foxy had said excuse me , and I just felt I just felt so paranoid because she was saying , talking about all the , how he 'd never been faithful to anyone and how , and I really did feel , would n't you feel awful if everyone was saying oh Sal , yeah , Sal , Sal 's making a real effort but but no she said |
| 6 | Maybe he had never been innocent . |
| 7 | She was a weak fool — the pillow received another thump — imagining things when he had only been intent on silencing her . |
| 8 | Yet he had clearly been naive to suppose that his American-accented Italian would be acceptable . |
| 9 | Yet he had never been further from his native village than the horse and carriage festival forty miles away , where he competed every year . |
| 10 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |