Example sentences of "been [adj] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 2 | When Karen Stephens trained as a hairdresser she had to learn more than just the rudiments of cutting and blow-drying/ She also had to tackle the problems of learning how to lip-read in a mirror , as 20-year-old Karen has been deaf all her life . |
| 3 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 4 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |
| 6 | Your Mum 's been bald all her life . |
| 7 | For Mary Queen of Scots , who , as Lady Antonia Fraser has reminded us , had been conscious all her life that she was a queen regnant , there was therefore a considerable problem . |
| 8 | But then , she 'd been lonely all her life . |
| 9 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 10 | Second , while adults who have been blind all their lives report no visual dreams , and have no measurable rapid eye movements using EOG measures , they do have periods of low-voltage EEC with reduced muscle tone , consistent with REM sleep , " and if mechanical sensors are used to assess eye movement , it appears that their eyes do indeed wiggle about during these sleep phases . " |
| 11 | And she 'd been blind positive he 'd ask her out . |
| 12 | You 're both hot right now and you 've been hot all your lives . ’ |
| 13 | She 's always been active all her life . |
| 14 | All , been active all her life . |
| 15 | It was heavy going searching through the stubble , but the result had been well-worth all my efforts . |