Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As your co-trustee I have not been inattentive to my duty … and I in no shape deserve to be the object of the prosecution of my co-trustees . |
| 2 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 3 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 5 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 6 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 7 | still I think it 's the fact erm you know y you 're not she 's got a problem on her mind she 's not been well you 're not taking her serious |
| 8 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 9 | In the past where fee disputes have arisen following an M&A engagement we have always been able to establish our position to the lawyers ' satisfaction as a result of a clear and comprehensive engagement letter agreed to in writing by the client . |
| 10 | In a well-led and well-motivated military force it has always been possible to form a rearguard who will fight tenaciously on behalf of their colleagues . |
| 11 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 12 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 13 | No wonder she had n't been able to find the door handle . |
| 14 | At home she had never been aware of it . |
| 15 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 16 | That despairing bleat touched a heart she had n't been sure still existed . |
| 17 | This is the only nine to five sales job I 've ever been able to offer anybody . |
| 18 | At the last moment she had not been brave enough . |
| 19 | Even just now , when for a moment she had not been able to remember what day it was , and when Faith Lavender had already been dead a week . |
| 20 | From somewhere in the back Cecilia could hear that sound she had never been able to identify and had not liked to ask about , a regular screeching as made by a bird in a zoo . |
| 21 | In his arms , pressed close against the hard , powerful body she 'd never been able to banish from her mind , she forgot everything but him , knew nothing but the agonising joy of being in his arms . |
| 22 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 23 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 24 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 25 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 26 | Since that day she had not been able to sleep , or to think straight . |
| 27 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 28 | But that first day they had only been able to afford two bottles of Anjou rosè . |
| 29 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |
| 30 | ‘ How very strange , ’ mused Miss Hardbroom , ‘ not only the noisiest , but also the most knowledgeable frog I have ever been privileged to meet . ’ |