Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I know Alan from the England set-up , and everyone has always been impressed with his work . ’ |
2 | and I 'd always been sorry that my dad told us , you know . |
3 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
4 | It 's same as , what ow she 's gone into hospital with her , you know , and I 'd actually been that day , you know what I mean , I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not cross , 'cos I do n't mind . |
5 | They 're not actually erm , using the D S O , and I 've just been involved in the |
6 | And I 've never been carol-singing in April before . |
7 | I have consistently said why do n't they allow er , councils to spend the receipts from council houses on building new houses , and I 've never been impressed with the replies nor the reasons . |
8 | But as I say , I 've never seen anything , and I 've never been able to find anybody who can provide that answer for me . |
9 | I am aware of the difficult times that other theatre companies who actually face in this moment in time and I am very grateful when I and I 've always been grateful to the Harlow Council for the funding of the Council has given to the theatre , has given to the theatre over the years . |
10 | The first pair of real hiking boots I ever had were Daisy Roots and I 've always been impressed by their comfort . |
11 | And I 've always been mature for my age . ’ |
12 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
13 | It is said — and I have never been able to verify this figure — 70% , and not all were shot down by the fighters , although the majority of aircraft were . |
14 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
15 | Fenella and I have always been close . |
16 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
17 | I rise to support the motion moved in Mr name and I have always been opposed to fox hunting full stop . |
18 | I usually stand up when a lady enters the room ( if the lady in question is one of those battling Berthas from Bermondsey who staff the Informer office , her subsequent confusion delights me ) , and I have always been anxious to place my education and superior talents at the service of the Radical Left . |
19 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
20 | The problem of evil has exercised people in all three traditions of historical monotheism and nobody has ever been able to find a logical way of reconciling it with the concept of the one God . |
21 | You 're a nice young gentleman and you 've always been civil to me , not treated me like a dog . |
22 | He was replaced in an acting capacity by his arch-rival , the anti-communist Croatian Stipe Mesic , who had hitherto been Deputy President and who had anyway been due to succeed Jovic in May 1991 . |
23 | He was going to have to admit he loved her and could n't live without her , and that was a hard thing for a man who had always been one hundred per cent in control , and who had always been one hundred per cent independent , and one hundred per cent rational , to do . |
24 | Conversely , people living outside the UK ( and who have recently been resident in the UK ) can continue to join and vote for the party even though the next Labour Government 's policies will have little direct impact on their lives . |
25 | Second , the NHS would focus more on acute hospital care ; thus chronically sick patients , who lack media appeal and who have never been able to compete successfully for resources within the NHS , would have a substantial part of their budgets protected within the proposed community care grant . |
26 | But it would have been too cruel , and she had already been cruel once , and being cruel to him did n't help her own pain . |
27 | And she had obviously been right to guess that her assistant possessed more initiative than her current employer gave her credit for . |
28 | The blood had come in the middle of the night and she had still been appalled . |
29 | And she had never been that . |
30 | The Vale of Blackmoor was her only world , and she had never been far outside the valley . |