Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately . |
| 2 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 3 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , you 're very noisy when you come back for somebody who 's only been sociable , so you are . ’ |
| 5 | No , I know , I do n't mean owt , owt wrong but I just ca n't remember these two names , I do n't know why , there 's something I 've never been able to , cos I 've always said to you ai n't I ? |
| 6 | It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time . |
| 7 | This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in . |
| 8 | As a result of investigating unsolved problems in biology , including how a seed or egg can contain the essence which grows into the new individual member of the same species , he postulated ( something which has long been familiar to those with a spiritual or esoteric background ) the existence of what must , by implication , be a non-physical mould or pattern , what he calls a ‘ morphogenetic field ’ , which survives the death of the physical form , and which shapes the individual tree , animal and flower of each species , just as the individual field around a magnet can create a pattern in a scatter of iron filings . |
| 9 | She understood that she did not like tunnels , though this was something she had previously been unaware of . |
| 10 | Mrs Ainsworth appeared at my elbow , " That 's something we 've never been able to find out . " |
| 11 | He had been awake nearly all the night with an attack of hiccups — something he had never been prone to . |
| 12 | The vine is unimportant , but how and why its cultivation still persists in Champagne must be fascinating to anyone who has ever been intrigued by the curiously eclectic attitude to rules and regulations often displayed by the French . |
| 13 | I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor . |
| 14 | Much of it was way beyond anything he 'd ever been able to dream about . |