Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been good all week
2 ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests .
3 I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’
4 I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’
5 we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really .
6 She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant .
7 I 've been married three times .
8 yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now .
9 out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in
10 he may be eligible to be on a training course , for what we do n't know , but er after you 've been unemployed six months you are either required to or you have the opportunity to , or you can go on a state training course but what they train you for or to do we , we have n't actually got defined yet .
11 They say unless you 've been unemployed six months you 're not unemployed .
12 I 've been thirsty all evening !
13 Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day .
14 We 've been busy all day .
15 ‘ They 've been ready this week past , ’ said Ednyfed Fychan , and swung to the door with alacrity .
16 ‘ I 've been ready three years , Victor . ’
17 Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now .
18 I 've been sick several times . ’
19 They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor …
20 SALES of nursing and residential care home in the south have been buoyant last year , according to national business agent , Christie and Co .
21 There have been competent academic overviews of the Labour Party 's evolution from people such as David Howell and James Hinton ; and a whole 1960s and 1970s genre of Marxist accounts , following Ralph Miliband , on the lines of ‘ the uselessness of Labourism ’ .
22 ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years .
23 India 's 100m Muslim population has reacted widespread demonstrations in support of Saddam Hussein , and there have been similar large- scale protests in Indonesia , Malaysia , and Bangladesh .
24 The Pakistanis have been incensed all summer by mutterings that they only make the old ball swing so violently by tampering with it .
25 Despite this there have been various Parliamentary attempts to define the phrase .
26 Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years
27 Of those who have been married thirty years or more , only 4.3 per cent divorce .
28 George and Helen have been married forty-five years .
29 Needless to say , there have been certain noticeable effects on people raised on TV over the past 40 years .
30 As these examples indicate , there have been great environmental gains in traffic restraint areas , quite apart from the traffic improvements .
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