Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only animals I have n't been able to check on are the sheep . ’ |
| 2 | I think we deserved it because that was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with . |
| 3 | ‘ That was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with ’ Gavin Hastings |
| 4 | In these few paragraphs we have not been able to do more than provide a sketchy summary of these rich concepts . |
| 5 | Many , for example , talked about the gangs they had once been involved in but these gangs , if they remained at all , were not , as one Town Boy said , ‘ a shadow of what they used to be ’ . |
| 6 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 7 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 8 | In many rural areas it has therefore been usual for local farm workers to work on the land ‘ man and boy ’ . |
| 9 | For two years she had hardly been sane . |
| 10 | In six years she had never been able to cultivate that devil-may-care attitude that seemed to characterise the gentleman at the Feathers . |
| 11 | In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature . |
| 12 | For years it has not been clear exactly what the Tate is . |
| 13 | Many affidavits were filed in these proceedings , but for our purposes it has not been necessary to refer to them in any detail , because the facts are carefully summarised in the judgment of Mann L.J . |
| 14 | For forty years he had n't been able to bring himself to venture into it again . |
| 15 | In the past 25 years he has also been responsible for the construction of the mortality tables produced by the Continuous Mortality Investigation Bureau for use by the life offices and has also taken an active part in the development of a new method of analysing sickness insurance statistics . |
| 16 | We have not forgotten this offer , although for various reasons we have not been able to develop an idea until now . |
| 17 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 18 | I could say some of the things I had n't been able to say when I left him , because I had n't shared his feelings then . |
| 19 | The only two dates I have ever been able to remember are the date of my birth and 1066 , the year that William the Conqueror first visited England . |
| 20 | After completing the questionnaires , Susan felt that working in a library would not only fit her answers but was one of the things she 'd always been interested in doing . |
| 21 | She needed several things she had not been able to bring away from the Holborn house ; chemises , petticoats , nightgowns , drawers , a frilled nightcap that had taken her fancy , stockings , handkerchiefs . |
| 22 | Their house is a repository rich with the things they have n't been able to bring themselves to sell . |
| 23 | White and Wilson also comment : ‘ Within the case studies it has not been possible to examine closely the relationship ( if any exists ) between the use of information and personal or business effectiveness . |
| 24 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 25 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 26 | Strangely , she felt more resentful of this lady 's peremptory commands than she ever had of those of the merchants ' wives she had previously been obliged to swallow . |
| 27 | I do n't think there 's a very great deal in the way of er lighting fittings one can talk about erm in houses in Harlow , it 's er , there 's a , a distinct difference between the light , a lot , lot of architects in , in Harlow have lived in Harlow you see and they will go in for all the very latest type of lighting fittings erm and because they have er access to the books for the various er designers of lighting fittings er , generally though , they , the majority of the people in the town er have come from er London boroughs and erm they view the same kind of lighting fittings they 've always been used to . |
| 28 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 29 | As I said , apart from Spanish I am not a speaker of any of the other languages I have recently been involved in . |
| 30 | Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee . |