Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If I had n't been such a coward maybe they might have turned out better . ’ |
| 4 | I and I took to Connor 's Quay as a sailing ship and I and then of course I had n't been much in sailing ships . |
| 5 | I had n't been any great shakes at boxing , but I 'd thought as a young man that I might be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've already been this morning , thank you , Corp . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 8 | I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man . |
| 9 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 10 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 11 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never been this way before . |
| 13 | But I 've never been this close before … ’ |
| 14 | Oh , well I have n't been that way yet . |
| 15 | One fan said : ‘ I have n't been this wet since Pavarotti in the Park and at least the burgers were cheaper there . ’ |
| 16 | Eh , I have n't been this week . |
| 17 | In other words , more people are surviving to 60 , and enjoying the kind of lifespan which has never been all that rare , but which is now much more common , simply because so few humans die at or just after birth , in the first five years of life , and so on . |
| 18 | It had n't been easy to break into the tough world of radio news reporting , not with her fragile appearance , which had always been such a handicap . |
| 19 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 20 | Travelling , which had once been such a bore to him , was now a continual nightmare . |
| 21 | I mean , there have been some in the area , which have n't been that flats as well . |
| 22 | Like I was saying to one of the men in the section who has n't been that co-operative , like , I 'm only here for a year and you all know more than I will ever know about policing . |
| 23 | For she is certainly mine now , and surely in a way she has never been any other man 's … |
| 24 | ‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've never been much of an exam passer . ’ |
| 26 | You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've always been such a good little girl . |
| 28 | You 've always been such a wonderful sister to me . |
| 29 | She had not been that way before . |
| 30 | She chewed the pencil , swallowing splinters ; what could she tell Mrs Rundle , who was now ( if she had ever been much more than ) a stranger , living at a distance , forgetting them , putting them into her past , memories packed with other memories in her bulging handbag ? |