Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been good all week |
| 2 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 4 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 5 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 6 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 7 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
| 8 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |
| 10 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 11 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 12 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 13 | Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day . |
| 14 | We 've been busy all day . |
| 15 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 16 | ‘ They 've been ready this week past , ’ said Ednyfed Fychan , and swung to the door with alacrity . |
| 17 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 18 | For as long as I can remember , it has been standard medical teaching that teething of babies causes no symptoms . |
| 19 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 20 | Because she 'd seen the bottle , and it had been good French burgundy … |
| 21 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 22 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 23 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 24 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 25 | It 's been great great success for everybody , er all the competitors have enjoyed it , I think all the organizers have enjoyed it as well and I think we 're all looking forward to coming back next year . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been sheer hard work , but worth it because I 'm feeling the benefits . |
| 27 | Strudwick , still desperately trying to put rugby league on the map in the capital , said : ‘ It 's been hectic this week , having to dash to and fro from the training ground to the hospital . |
| 28 | October is however officially winter , even though it 's been warm this year . |