Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adj] [pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly . |
| 2 | How cruel he had been to her ! |
| 3 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 4 | And how painful it 's been at times to love you . |
| 5 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
| 6 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 7 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 9 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 10 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 11 | How fortunate we have been over the years in our efforts to help this cause , for yet again the story is one of sunshine , success and soaring profits . |
| 12 | The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way . |
| 13 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 14 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 15 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 16 | Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN . |
| 17 | The warm feeling induced by the spirit made her aware of how cold she had been since hearing the news . |
| 18 | I 'll tell Mama when I see her how good you have been to me . |
| 19 | You 've no idea how good it 's been for me out here . |
| 20 | She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again . |
| 21 | All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face . |
| 22 | Oh , Anne , how terrible I 've been to you ! |
| 23 | Rupert had never met Everard 's mother , but remembering his own mother and how comforting she had been in his childhood illnesses he was immediately reassured . |
| 24 | She once confessed how unhappy she had been at home . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you know how concerned I 've been about you and this damn phantom baby ? ’ |
| 26 | Big , burly Ernest von Witzendorff sat at the foot of the conning-tower and laughed when he remembered how tough it had been in 1944 when Allied planes with radar covered the Atlantic . |
| 27 | We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again , lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery . |
| 28 | I do n't think people have any idea how tough it has been for me . |
| 29 | We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other . |
| 30 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |