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Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner .
2	Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner .
3	‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’
4	So I 've always been poor , and I have n't got any nice dresses !
5	Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey .
6	Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ?
7	Hitherto there had only been four or five types available in England .
8	Perhaps it had even been home-cooked .
9	Separately they have always been superb .
10	Yesterday there had only been one dress on display .
11	Back home it had always been warm .
12	Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors .
13	Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see .
14	Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ?
15	Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do .
16	Well we 've fortunately been able to track them down to the waxes which er occur on land so what we 're seeing here is a , an input from the land carried on the dusts which are blown in the winds from the Sahara and other regions out into the Atlantic Ocean .
17	Well there 's certainly been one element of the the input to the preparation of the structure plan , but there has also been some independent view on the the capacity and the the environmental problems that individual districts across North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have in their ability to accommodate development , and on the pressure and the problems that those pressures of development will have on those individual districts , bearing in mind the environmental constraints identified both in National and in the Secretary of State 's previous approval of the structure plan .
18	You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft .
19	Well he 's always been pleasant to me you got ta
20	Well he 's always been able to drink like that he 's .
21	‘ Since then I 've hardly been able to see his hands uncovered , which makes me very sad .
22	Since then I have also been fortunate enough to have played in ten Test Matches for England . ’
23	" Your letters were always too short , Sara , and not detailed enough , but then you 've never been good at spilling all your thoughts in speech or writing , have you ?
24	But then she had always been able to do that for him .
25	Unfortunately we have never been able to get the evidence . ’
26	My brother , sister and I have made lots of friends whilst we have been down there , but it only really started to fascinate us from about 2 or 3 years ago , before then we had just been interested in swimming , going into the amusements and going to the beach etc .
27	Unfortunately there have rarely been precise identifications although two are stated to be of Middle Eastern origin , the Cypraea Arabica from Sarre grave 238 and a tiger cowrie from Haslingfield ( Cambridgeshire ) , whose source is the Red Sea .
28	‘ Unfortunately he 's always been lightweight . ’
29	Then he had also been astonished to find that some of Sheffield 's cutlery grinders earned from 18s ( 90p ) to £1 a week .
30	Consequently it has sometimes been difficult for the new patterns to establish themselves in the face of combined resistance from programme committees , established departments , and professional senior officers .