Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Neither oor Joy nor me have ever been handy . |
| 4 | ‘ Although I have n't been able to convince myself . ’ |
| 5 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 6 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
| 12 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
| 14 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 15 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
| 16 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
| 17 | ( 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | My home is 90 miles away , so I have n't been able to afford to go back very often . |
| 25 | Bartram s query regarding Kalm s American observations was dealt with : Miller had not seen whether Linnaeus had included them in his Species of plants , but mentioned that Kalm had published them himself ; ‘ in the Swedish language ; but as I do not understand it , so I have not been curious enough to send for the book , nor do I hear any good character of it . ’ |
| 26 | The original bouquet for this picture was exceptionally large , so I have not been able to reproduce a life-sized replica but instead have scaled it down to fit into a picture frame . |
| 27 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 28 | It was a pity that she had n't been able to use one of his handkerchiefs , a strand of his hair . |
| 29 | She bows her head , disappointed that she had n't been able to do more for herself . |
| 30 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |