Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’
2 How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … .
3 How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him .
4 All I had was in that crate , its death
5 Are you sure you 've been to this place before ? "
6 All we 've been through this evening
7 After all we 've been to one another in the past … ’
8 All about how terrible we 'd been to one of the new teachers , how you could understand some of the other classes doing that , but not us , and you banged the desk so hard all the books fell off and we fell about laughing , and you had to laugh too , you could n't keep a straight face .
9 She thought how rough they had been with each other , how savage almost , sometimes in an odd way wanting to be done so that they could begin all over again .
10 Only with an effort did those who had been to all the other parties locate one another and separate themselves from the mob .
11 Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer .
12 But many of the symptoms asked about were reported for similar proportions of those who had been in residential homes and those who had not ; these were pain , trouble with breathing , vomiting or feeling sick , drowsiness , sleeplessness , dry mouth or thirst , depression , loss of appetite , difficulty swallowing , dizziness , bed sores , an unpleasant smell , and backache .
13 If those who have been to Arab feasts ever wonder what happens to all that food and ‘ tut-tut ’ over the waste , forget it .
14 However , the number of people with fathers in the professional group is relatively small , so that they are still a minority of those who have been in higher education .
15 We talked about the possibility of his death , we talked about the possibility of him being permanently brain damaged , we talked about the happiness they had enjoyed together and how important it had been to both of them to find each other .
16 Big , burly Ernest von Witzendorff sat at the foot of the conning-tower and laughed when he remembered how tough it had been in 1944 when Allied planes with radar covered the Atlantic .
17 We know how tough it has been for many but we are poised to move forward again , lacking only the spark of confidence with which a Conservative victory would ignite recovery .
18 This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick .
19 The mute swan population stands at the highest it has been for 40 years .
20 Although , as suggested earlier , their standard of living was higher it had been before 1914 their social position and status remained unchanged .
21 As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair .
22 ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’
23 Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article .
24 He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt .
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