StringNet search result

Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It 's same as , what ow she 's gone into hospital with her , you know , and I 'd actually been that day , you know what I mean , I do n't mind , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not cross , 'cos I do n't mind .
2	‘ I 've already been this morning , thank you , Corp . ’
3	‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’
4	I I 've always been that way inclined , I mean my dad was er he he was a miner , he was a lovely dad , he was lovely man .
5	Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see .
6	‘ I 've never been this way before .
7	I have n't been long back .
8	Oh , well I have n't been that way yet .
9	" Sorry I have n't been great company .
10	Eh , I have n't been this week .
11	I have now been answering cichlid queries for PFK for exactly seven years .
12	‘ She has always been that way , ever since she was a little girl , ’ says another of those close to her , Kylie 's great aunt , Mrs Thomas Riddiford .
13	She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men .
14	You 've never been much help to anyone all your life , but I think you were trying then .
15	She had not been that way before .
16	Her husband — she had still been married then-told her not to look .
17	If you had n't been next door here , you 'd never have known . "
18	I mean , she 's always been that way nervous and
19	Well we 've never been this place before , but we 've been on a similar do .
20	Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster .
21	‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone .
22	‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value .
23	They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease .
24	In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said .
25	As any mother will tell you , it has n't been one jot less exhausting and emotionally draining to live with a morose , depressed , melodramatic , self-obsessed exam-taker this year than any other year .
26	On the occasions I have returned it has usually been late afternoon .
27	It has only been burning coal in it !
28	It has long been common practice to give students isolated passages of poetry or prose , often but not always anonymous , to analyse , discuss , and respond to , in the manner of Richards 's original undertaking .
29	According to Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade : ‘ It has always been this Government 's policy to put current services into the private sector where this makes sense .
30	The continued dominance of City and Civil Service elites has often been seen as a barrier to dynamism in British industry ; in fact , it has merely been one aspect of a secure and integrated dominant class , linked by kinship , ownership of wealth and distinctive patterns of education .