Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 2 | 'Cos I 've been this morning and I 've cleared fireplace out , washed |
| 3 | I 've been enough trouble . ’ |
| 4 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 5 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 6 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 7 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 8 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 9 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 10 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 11 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 12 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 13 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 14 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 15 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 17 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 18 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 19 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 20 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 21 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 22 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 23 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 24 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 25 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 26 | There was the usual bawdy banter , of course , and it had been that way ever since she first put on her white apron and began serving behind the counter . |
| 27 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 28 | The ground fire was much worse than it had been that morning . |
| 29 | It was shimmering under the surface as it had been all afternoon . |
| 30 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |