Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Consequently a widow or widower will enjoy a higher retirement income than if or she had been single when they retired . |
| 3 | Section 5 of the Business Names Act 1985 provides that where a person fails to comply with the requirement set out in s. 5 and thereafter seeks to enforce a business contract with a party in default by means of a court action , ( a ) if the person in default can establish that he or she has a claim against the proprietor , which due to the proprietor 's failure to comply with s. 5 he or she has been unable to pursue , or ( b ) if a breach by the proprietor of s. 5 has caused the person in default some financial loss , the proprietor 's claim shall be dismissed , unless it is ‘ just and equitable ’ that the proprietor should be allowed to continue the action . |
| 4 | I would like to hear from women who are now or who have been involved in prostitution . |
| 5 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 6 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 7 | Either they have been slobby , and it has eventually got depressing having to argue the case for owning a toothbrush ; or they have been scrupulous — in which case I have started longing for a bit more rough-and-readiness . |
| 8 | Now , nobody would know for certain how he had died , or what had been wrong with him , her husband . |
| 9 | I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society . |
| 10 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 11 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 12 | I had tried since , alone and with others , and I 'd been tongue-tied . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 16 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 17 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 18 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 19 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 20 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 21 | , she said he must not strain , and I 've been petrified |
| 22 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 23 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 24 | It was n't er , it was n't good to leave them about , you know what I mean and er oh er yes it 's been very important , if I might say so , certain things as I 've had been called upon to do and I 've been happy and proud to do it . |
| 25 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 26 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 27 | And you 've retreated further and further into it , and I 've been jealous . |
| 28 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 29 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 30 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |