Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , we 've been longtime admirers of yours , well you might even say fans since the days of Screentest really . |
| 2 | Aunt Elena was Mother 's room-mate at school in Switzerland and they 've been best friends ever since . |
| 3 | We 've been best friends since our first day at school , when we were five . |
| 4 | I 've been many things in my life , but I 'm not a liar . ’ |
| 5 | The A423 is one of the busiest roads in the region and there 've been many accidents . |
| 6 | ‘ There 've been good things and bad things , but I 've survived . |
| 7 | You 've been good girls and worked hard for us , and I wish you luck . ’ |
| 8 | Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . " |
| 9 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 10 | I 've been thirty years in the business and this is the one place I have been where there are not petty jealousies or anything like that . |
| 11 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 12 | There 've been sixteen escapes in the last two years and staff blame underfunding by the Home Office . |
| 13 | Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and |
| 14 | He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things . |
| 15 | was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 17 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 18 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 19 | We 've done it , we 've been four years , you know |
| 20 | I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way . |
| 21 | There 've been low points , too — not least the fire in January last year which destroyed an entire hangar and its contents at a cost to the Air Force of 40 million . |
| 22 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 23 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 24 | And the main news again , there 've been renewed calls tonight for the police to be armed after a community policeman was murdered . |
| 25 | " I 've been back hours . " |
| 26 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 27 | ‘ Modigliani ’ , someone said , ‘ you 've been three years fiddling about with one type of head and you 'll be another three on the new design . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ There 've been some fears expressed that we might have an occupation force in Panama , ’ said Senate minority leader Mr Bob Dole . |
| 29 | the Boy Scouts can on there for a number of years , back to the fifties , there 've been excellent tenants of that piece of land . |
| 30 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |