Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I opened it , and I got my answer , and it set me thinking afresh and seeing clearly where I had formerly been blind . |
| 2 | erm er if there 's anybody who you feel erm next door or who have recently been married cos it 's obviously a great help to people who have just recently been married . |
| 3 | It involves visits to the homes of children who are either convicted offenders , children at special risk , or who have recently been involved in trouble and have come to the attention of the police . |
| 4 | Anyone who can see — or who has ever been able to see — is able to visualize . |
| 5 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 6 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 7 | No one had any comment to make for the excellent reason that everyone had already been convinced of the fact . |
| 8 | Neither oor Joy nor me have ever been handy . |
| 9 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 10 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 12 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 13 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
| 14 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 15 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 16 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 17 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 18 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |
| 19 | After the yard was the house that was built for , and due , so much more life than I 'd ever been able to give it . |
| 20 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 21 | Rumour had it that she had once been married , long ago , when she was very young . |
| 22 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 23 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 24 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 25 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |
| 26 | Derek was confident that she had never been involved in anything subversive in her life or , for that matter , anything which was not completely dignified and fully reputable . |
| 27 | To tell Luke the truth , somehow force him to accept that she had never been involved with Florian in the way he imagined , might just possibly put an end to his — his persecution of her . |
| 28 | Was it true , what Maria said , that she had never been fair to Hester ? |
| 29 | Riding one of Jennie 's fabulous dressage schoolmasters , Katharine was able to experience a whole host of dressage movements from flying changes to pirouettes that she had never been able to try before . |
| 30 | After Mark 's funeral Robyn 's lips had been so painful that she had hardly been able to speak or smile for days — but then that had suited her fine , still suited her , although no one guessed , except Anne perhaps . |