Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sorry I 've been to disability Scotland |
| 2 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
| 3 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 4 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 5 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 6 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 7 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 8 | Yes you would , be careful he get 's between your legs and goes . |
| 9 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 10 | And how painful it 's been at times to love you . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 12 | How fortunate we have been over the years in our efforts to help this cause , for yet again the story is one of sunshine , success and soaring profits . |
| 13 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 14 | The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way . |
| 15 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 16 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 17 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 18 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |
| 19 | ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly . |
| 20 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 21 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 22 | In the early 40s I remember being at the Hilker house off South Granville Street when Yehudi Menuhin was in town for a concert . |
| 23 | Helen , who had been so calm during the night , was now cold and shaking with delayed shock , and Anne told her how glad she had been of her company . |
| 24 | The warm feeling induced by the spirit made her aware of how cold she had been since hearing the news . |
| 25 | Obviously , the ability to continue someone else 's work is very dependent on how disciplined they have been in identifying work to be done and returning successful work to LIFESPAN . |
| 26 | For many men the most important grieving they do is over the loss of their work when made redundant or on retirement . |
| 27 | I must be good I 've been round your mum every day but I have n't got it . |
| 28 | Where it 's not quite so good I feel is on her face . |
| 29 | McCrea sums up the Western code by his declaration that all his wants is to ‘ enter my house justified ’ while Scott is more easy-going and hence survives to mourn his partner in a world where a Westerner is more likely to be an unshaven brute played by Warren Oates than a white-hatted , true-hearted paladin . |
| 30 | All I had was in that crate , its death |