Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone has been excellent during this nightmare . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 3 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 4 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 5 | So I had been right about that . |
| 6 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 7 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 8 | ‘ Man , I 've been worrying about that for fifteen years ! ’ exclaims Bryan . |
| 9 | I 've been worrying about that . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been worrying about this . |
| 11 | ‘ Mind you , I 've been shocked by some of the secrets I 've uncovered in ordinary bedrooms . |
| 12 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 13 | I 've been sure about all the other , too . |
| 14 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been busy on another plan . |
| 16 | Based on the following , delegates , I 've been lucky like many of you , to live in a country where I have had available to me a National Health Service that has been the envy of the world . |
| 17 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 18 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 19 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 20 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 21 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 22 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 23 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 24 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 25 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 26 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 27 | ‘ I have been concerned by some leaks . |
| 28 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 29 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 30 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |