Example sentences of "[been] [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had always been too conscientious , never spared herself , been afraid to leave him for longer than a day , she deserved a rest , a holiday . |
| 2 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 3 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 4 | So the detergent companies have been careful to use lots of recycled plastic in their containers . |
| 5 | One of the main problems in banking is that banks have not been free to establish themselves in other member states — the technical phrase which applies here is the Right of Establishment . |
| 6 | ‘ Mr. H. A. Allbutt might have ventilated his views without let or hindrance from professional authority had he been content to address them to medical men instead of the public . ’ |
| 7 | The ones that a friend of mine who was once in the TA has been promising to get me for three years now . |
| 8 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 9 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 10 | I have to say that the Pro GAP would n't be my first choice in any rack system because each time I 've used one I 've been unable to rid it of that ‘ overprocessed ’ synthetic edge . |
| 11 | Having been unable to get it in 1833 , he was glad that it was forthcoming in 1841 . |
| 12 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 13 | Also a good pointer where we 've been able to compare ourselves with civil engineering scaled fees , which was on the Overtown Bank Slip which was a job which went completely right , perfect no problems . |
| 14 | Frederica could , in the Lake District , have seen a " Wordsworthian " tarn and been able to render it in Wordsworthian words , and , because these words were known , tested , thought about , she could have introduced minute changes , have seen one little thing he had n't seen , changed the point of view . |
| 15 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 16 | No one had ever been able to knock her for six , and if this man affected her at all it was because she disliked him so much . |
| 17 | ‘ Your sister 's been able to supply us with most of the details we need . ’ |
| 18 | As it was , Europe had not been able to supply herself with all her needs since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | One might perhaps have expected that it would have been impossible to discharge him from hospital , but the local authority , which shares parental responsibility for him , has been able to place him with devoted foster parents whose dedication and skill are of the highest possible order . |
| 20 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 21 | It is unlikely that any of the missing diamonds had been picked up by persons involved in the rescue or who visited the site later as only an expert would have been able to identify them as precious stones . |
| 22 | Losing them was bitter , and my only reward is that now I can afford the one thing which with all my wealth and power I 've never been able to permit myself until this moment . |