Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 '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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
| 6 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 7 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 8 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 9 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 10 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 11 | So I had been right about that . |
| 12 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 13 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 14 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 15 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 18 | ‘ Man , I 've been worrying about that for fifteen years ! ’ exclaims Bryan . |
| 19 | I 've been worrying about that . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been worrying about this . |
| 21 | ‘ Mind you , I 've been shocked by some of the secrets I 've uncovered in ordinary bedrooms . |
| 22 | I 've been involved in direct mail ever since my first days with the Billy Graham Organisation in the early sixties . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 've been sure about all the other , too . |
| 26 | We 've broken up , I 've been heartbroken through bizarre circumstances … but I still live with that person . |
| 27 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 28 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 29 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 30 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |