Example sentences of "be [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And who are thee to threaten ? |
| 2 | I mean , on both times it 's been me taking advantage of him , it really |
| 3 | To perpetuate a cliché , that could have been me talking . |
| 4 | If it 'd been me wed … ’ |
| 5 | There had been nothing written , only a long-standing tacit agreement about the brooch . |
| 6 | Something unpushable about him had made Davies hesitate , and he 'd been all right , there had been nothing to fear ; he and Davies were friends now . |
| 7 | There had been nothing achieved by the expedition save the coachman 's cold which now threatened to lay low the rest of her staff . |
| 8 | There has been nothing to complain about . |
| 9 | But for the sheer number of performances , there has been nothing to compare with the serial trials of white collar criminals . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know what the reasons are because there has been nothing said to me , ’ he said . |
| 11 | There 's been nothing done ! |
| 12 | And as it could n't be seen from the cockpit there had been nothing to remind her that it was still open . |
| 13 | Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Her anger last night had been nothing compared to this . |
| 15 | Anyway there 's been nothing to regret as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 16 | He then draws the breathtaking conclusion that ‘ there has been nothing resembling intellectual coherence ’ . |
| 17 | Until 1988 there had been nothing to indicate an increase in Palestinian confidence in the United States . |
| 18 | One moment he had McAllister in his arms , soft and willing , making relatively innocent love to her , and while her response had been gentle , rather than passionate — which was to be expected — there had been nothing to show that she had not welcomed it . |
| 19 | And once the sex had gone , there had really been nothing left at all . |
| 20 | She had been far too busy trying to cope with the sale of the large estate , and by the time all her father 's debts had been settled there had been nothing left except the old Elizabethan Manor House . |
| 21 | The Sola grill is different , it grills so evenly , there 's been nothing to beat it in 25 years . |
| 22 | There has been nothing to fire the voters ' imagination — no spectacular clashes over policy , no exciting face to face confrontations between leading personalities , no suspense even as to the outcome , for that has been a foregone conclusion for months : the Right will win , and in all probability with a thumping landslide majority . |
| 23 | When he 'd arrived home there had been nothing to eat and not even a bed of his own . |
| 24 | Yet , during all this period , there has been nothing to prevent the applicant from pressing ahead with all speed on the actual construction of the mink farm on Trondra . |
| 25 | These developments were the minutiae by which an intrinsically superior sparkling wine came to be refined , but without a raw product of unique potential there would have been nothing to refine . |
| 26 | But such worries are nothing compared to the dilemma facing the Kremlin as the waves of perestroika lap at one of the last fortresses of communist orthodoxy . |
| 27 | But pricey as the drinks at Kamieniolomy are , they are nothing compared to the girls . |
| 28 | In one of her poems , she feels sad , weary and footsore , but then sees that her sufferings are nothing compared to the sufferings of Jesus . |
| 29 | The hardships we are suffering in the recession are nothing compared to the hell of the Bosnian detention camps , and if we can not find the cash to help what amounts to very few of them then we are morally as well as economically bankrupt . |
| 30 | But those are nothing compared to the effects of crime on the victims , particularly elderly ones . |