Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [verb] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 2 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 3 | Are you sure you 've been to this place before ? " |
| 4 | All we 've been through this evening |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jessamy remembered how very annoyed she had been about that article . |
| 10 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |