Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [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 | I bump into a lot of people at conferences , so I have n't been able to write formally to thank you for the meeting because I do n't want anything on the record then |
| 7 | Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ? |
| 8 | Obviously we have n't been good away from home this season but I was pleased again with the attitude on Saturday . |
| 9 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
| 10 | He could break you in pieces , only he 's not been well … . |
| 11 | Perhaps it had even been home-cooked . |
| 12 | And to my annoyance was added the realization that perhaps he had not been such a bad interrogator after all . |
| 13 | So he had n't been sure of her after all … |
| 14 | erm , well it just , it just , you know , with her , I mean , she ca n't sit still , I mean to have , I mean I , the last four Saturdays , admittedly I have n't been well , but I 've just been totally indoors sewing . |
| 15 | somehow I have n't been able to work |
| 16 | Separately they have always been superb . |
| 17 | Nevertheless he has not been slow to seize on the results of such paperwork and the publication of tables , which have shown Edinburgh 's research ranks in the top four British universities . |
| 18 | ‘ I have read and thought and practised and observed and written for over a quarter of a century , survived a world war , and still I have not been able to provide a home in which my children may be happy . ’ |
| 19 | Back home it had always been warm . |
| 20 | The other point which is made by the defendant is this , he says that the plaintiffs have been guilty of delaying tactics er during the course of this litigation , the result of which has been that er he has not been able to realize his interest in the partnership premises , also he has not been able to acquire a partnership premises and he he , doctor mentioned to me that to the actual conveyance of the partnership premises he 's , he tells me was only produced I think thirty and er that er it was only then that he realized there might be a chance that he could acquire the premises for himself , but he says that er because of the general , I think the case is , because of the general conduct of the plaintiffs in delaying the trial of the action one way or another , er the practical effect has been that the plaintiffs have had the benefit of use and occupation of the premises at which he erm , a main view , has a lot of that interest and that they are getting benefit of the kind from that occupation and he is not getting any money in res in respect of that , at least nothing like any market rent because it maybe that there is a fairly small er payment being made , but I 'm not too entirely clear whether that is the case or not , but the stock bond is suggesting that the plaintiffs have been obtaining benefit of the use of the premises at his expense and in those circumstances it is unfair er in , in , or otherwise not appropriate that the plaintiffs should be entitled to obtain interest on their bill of costs , in respect essentially of the period of delay , and when I say period of delay included that the period during which the forward of Mr Justice remained erm unprotected . |
| 21 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 22 | So far I have not been able to come up with any musical symbol that has not been catered for , whether arranging for full orchestra , brass-band or choir — with the single exception of guitar chord symbols . |
| 23 | So far she had not been able to reconcile her desire to keep everything the same and her desire for comfort . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | These people are often thoughtful and clever , but so far they have not been able to bring about worthwhile changes . |
| 26 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 27 | Indeed , so far he had not been able to discover any previous relationship at all between Zoser and the Zikr . |
| 28 | So far he has n't been wrong ! |
| 29 | The South African case remains interesting , and I asked my doctor friend for clarification , but so far he has not been able to get any further information . |
| 30 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |