Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I came back , Bobby I gave Grant they and erm he must 've been pretty desperate because he did a wee wee before we left and he did a wee wee before |
| 2 | Even the soldiers in the field must 've been thoroughly sick of all those whining pieces about Our Boys and Girls , and their mail , or the endlessly recycled nonsense about how hard it was to be a female soldier in Saudi Arabia . |
| 3 | In , in this one it might 've been slightly easier because everything was spelled out you had to do you had to do carpenting , you had to do electrical . |
| 4 | He must 've been dead eighteen years . |
| 5 | Of all the hedges I 've seen they 've been about eighteen two foot , about that far apart |
| 6 | That 's not bad at all cos you thought it might 've been about nine hundred with them other two did n't you ? |
| 7 | Yeah , he 's , he 's into ev oh it must 've been about six or eight weeks ago he started saying a couple of things and I thought oh he 's coming now , but it stopped I think I got excited when he started saying dark , but that 's as far as it got , int it ? |
| 8 | And the whole thing was wrecked the whole the the erm the floors in each er flat was one big circle of stone er about er it would 've been about twelve |
| 9 | If you 'd 've just switched it on when I come in it 'd 've been totally different . |
| 10 | No I think , I thought we still had a chance , albeit you know the odds had gone down a bit or increased , but er no I thought we still had a chance , it was gon na be harder because if we lost any more by the wayside then you know you 're gon na be , it would 've been very awkward . |
| 11 | I had a very strong idea of what I wanted , even through I had plenty of photos : I knew exactly the kind of movements I was looking for , I 'm glad we did it in two — I do n't think the cricketer would 've been very keen to do it again ! ’ |
| 12 | It was and yet , I 'm losing my thread with , what I was going to say was , it must 've been so important because an in that you could get anything you liked . |
| 13 | Everybody says , ‘ Oh , you won £44,000 in the world championships , you must 've been really pleased with that , ’ but it 's not just the money , it 's being able to pick up the trophy at the end — that 's the nice thing . |
| 14 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 15 | I suppose I could 've been too cool ! ’ |
| 16 | She would 've been all fat there once , and a baby growing inside of her . |
| 17 | so they must 've been fairly sure of their support to allow them to come into an area of villages . |
| 18 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 19 | And your sister 's ten years older than you so they must 've been there ten years plus , must n't they ? |
| 20 | you , you must 've been there ten years plus . |
| 21 | Strangely , nobody said anything , but the culprit has been notably absent from subsequent holidays . |
| 22 | I say minimal both because it is rather modest , in contrast say to Jakobson 's , and because it seems to present a demand that it should be very difficult for modern literary studies to deny : that in describing the language of literary texts a degree of rigour is required such as has been notably absent from the work of a great many critics . |
| 23 | For a man who was leading the campaign for sanctions against South Africa , when that was still a hopeless liberal cause , he has been notably diffident about such things as collective punishment and detention without trial in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , as Layard and Nickell ( 1989 ) have shown , Britain 's recent record on education and training has been notably inadequate . |
| 25 | These then are the origins and development of the concepts and proposals which have become the substance of the Maastricht Treaty , but about which the public has been notably ill-informed . |
| 26 | There has been slightly greater interest in Cued Speech , but again the findings have mainly consisted of case studies or unsubstantiated claims . |
| 27 | To be to be honest i I , I , it 's been , the presentation I 've given tonight has been slightly different , it 's the first time I tried it and it was really successful . |
| 28 | Blues , of course , has been widely influential , indeed formative , on the development of rock . |
| 29 | This has been partly due to the new and attractive packages offered to depositors , and partly due to the increase in competition in the sector since the interest rate cartel was ended a few years ago . |
| 30 | The toxicity of some drugs has brought the status of the pharmaceutical industry to its lowest ebb yet , and has been partly responsible for a virtual stampede away from chemists towards health shops . |