Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Been dry all day . |
| 3 | His work rate has been prodigious all season , and although he may not have the quickest service around , he must rate currently as the world 's no 1 scrum-half . |
| 4 | What had not been right that day ? |
| 5 | I think prob problems of identification have n't really been right this time and we made a point a clear point this time with a note to people , if they were n't sure , to make comments on the books . |
| 6 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 7 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 8 | Absolutely cruising when falling two out in last year 's contest , the chestnut has also been below-par this term , but freshened by a three-month break , can arrive fast and late to claim the crown . |
| 9 | Had he been wrong those times ? |
| 10 | He once sang , ‘ I keep getting younger/My life 's been funny that way ’ . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | Yes , but has been wet all day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Hello , I 'm trying to clarify a rather confused report we 've picked up — I think from the local police — about an incident at the hospital last night , or it could have been early this morning . |
| 15 | October is however officially winter , even though it 's been warm this year . |
| 16 | The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did . |
| 19 | ‘ Two games against Barnsley have been tight this season and we must be on our guard . |
| 20 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 21 | I had always been lucky that way . |
| 22 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 23 | Walsh warned : ‘ James has been unstoppable this season since he trimmed down in the summer from 22 stone to a mere 18 . |
| 24 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 25 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 26 | It has n't been good all week and that 's not fair , ’ said George . |
| 27 | I 've been good all week |
| 28 | With different teams competing for routes it 's difficult to know what 's new , but conditions have certainly been good this year . |
| 29 | The rains have been good this year , and the crop has been bumper , but tobacco is fetching only 93 American cents a kilo at international auctions — less than half the price expected . |
| 30 | Blackgrass control has generally been good this season . |