Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pers pn] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly thought she loved me so much that she 'd been prepared to get herself pregnant to trick me into marriage . |
| 2 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 3 | These are all fairly high in protein , so once they have been accepted , growth will be pretty rapid if fed twice daily until your fish is about six inches ( 15cms ) . |
| 4 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 5 | It was not enough that they had been questioned at length about a work in which they had secretly collaborated : they were now to be insulted by having their acknowledged work dismissed as of small account . |
| 6 | And she had never had much time for Angela Cartwright , who , when it came to Grunte , tended to run with the hare , though it was plain enough that she had been put out by Grunte 's placing Hyacinth on his right hand and had agreed with Carole afterwards that they would have little trouble finding the necessary fifty signatures . |
| 7 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 8 | Was n't it enough that he had been so humiliated ? |
| 9 | After a year , the homoeopathically treated group was substantially better than the aspirin group , with two thirds of the patients better than they had been at the start of the trial , while none of the patients on aspirin had improved and most of them had dropped out , either because of unacceptable side-effects , or because the treatment was ineffective . |
| 10 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 11 | This turnaround of the external accounts has made the domestic performance of the ecomomy look decidedly better than it has been . |
| 12 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |
| 13 | If you love ‘ im , Maggie , treat yourself better than you 've been doing . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ The rose is for you , little maid , ’ he said , his voice husky , deeper than it had been before . |
| 15 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 16 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 17 | You 've extended courtesy , patience , and fair-mindedness to all , so that you 've been a tribute to the enquiry process if I may say so . |
| 18 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 19 | In the three years or so that I have been working at Joan Allen Electronics I have become acutely aware of battery problems , in particular from the many cases where detectors have been sent back for repair needlessly . |
| 20 | Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals . |
| 21 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 22 | They have forgotten who they are , knowing only that they have been trapped by an evil enchanter . |
| 23 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 24 | ‘ Only that he 'd been abroad . |
| 25 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 26 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 27 | She could not remember her dream , only that it had been about Edmund and that he loved her . |
| 28 | The Earth and the Moon are so close together that it has been estimated that the exposure of both planets to asteroids and comet debris has been much the same . |
| 29 | Nervy or not , she was particularly convincing in her role as Olwyn , more so than she had been in previous rehearsals . |
| 30 | One may however ask whether those in the action sample who said that the strain was less than it had been a year ago attributed this to the effects of the Home Support Project . |