Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've already been this morning , thank you , Corp . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ — and I 've not been well . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've not been well , Win . ’ |
| 4 | I 've not been right this season . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 6 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 8 | ‘ These fifteenth-century chests with their incised shell pattern are peculiar to Møn — I 've not been able to discover any on the other islands . |
| 9 | ‘ I was talking to an old man about death and he said , ‘ You know I 've not been able to talk to my wife . |
| 10 | Use analysis of the situation you are in as your key tactic : ‘ I 've not been able to make my point . |
| 11 | I 've not been able to ask Fiona why , since I know she is personally very involved and helped draw up the UK version of ‘ Caring For The Earth ’ with Adrian Phillips . |
| 12 | This is purported to walk the grave yard at certain times of the year , but firm evidence of this I 've not been able to find ; you always hear that someone else has seen it but never first hand . |
| 13 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 14 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 15 | Yeah unfortunately I 've not been able to have it done yet . |
| 16 | Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures . |
| 17 | He said I 've not been able to get one , and I went to he said I thought with an old |
| 18 | I 've not been bad for a long long time . |
| 19 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
| 20 | Forcing herself to sound as confident as she was trying to feel , she told Guido , ‘ I 've simply been busy , that 's all . ’ |
| 21 | They 're not actually erm , using the D S O , and I 've just been involved in the |
| 22 | I 've just been involved in the selection of caterers for erm , South Wilts Grammar School , and I 've got to say , and I 've told Mr this , because he criticised me , Concept Catering were n't in the le in the frame . |
| 23 | ‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’ |
| 24 | I 've just been round to see Mrs Reynolds in the village , and she 's adamant that all the kitchen and scullery windows were closed when she left at nine-thirty . |
| 25 | I 've just been bad . |
| 26 | I 've just been lucky so far , touch wood . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've also been keen to have dialogue with supporters . |
| 28 | I 've also been sick but er |
| 29 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 30 | Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately . |