Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [det] [noun] " 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 | I 've been many things in my life , but I 'm not a liar . ’ |
| 3 | 'Cos I 've been this morning and I 've cleared fireplace out , washed |
| 4 | I 've been enough trouble . ’ |
| 5 | I have been many things in my time . |
| 6 | When I get back Lucker wonders where I have been all night . |
| 7 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 8 | Later , much later , Kelly was to reflect on how lucky she had been that day . |
| 9 | when she had been all hugs and trust for her father . |
| 10 | It was barely five a.m. and dawn was just breaking , but she was wide awake , as she had been all night long . |
| 11 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ You have been this way before . |
| 14 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 15 | Rovers have made enormous strides in the past 14 months and we were totally committed today — as we have been all season . ’ |
| 16 | We 're all on air , we have been all morning |
| 17 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 18 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 19 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 22 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 24 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 25 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 26 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 27 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 30 | 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 . |