Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have now been answering cichlid queries for PFK for exactly seven years . |
| 2 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
| 3 | ‘ Susan and I have never been social butterflies , ’ Breeze explained with dignity , ‘ and I do n't think we shall be able to entertain much . |
| 4 | She 'd never been comfortable trading sallies with men . |
| 5 | Her husband — she had still been married then-told her not to look . |
| 6 | We 've never been keen gardeners but last year we decided to make a special effort and bought a big selection of plants and seeds . |
| 7 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 10 | They 've always been other years so I presume that |
| 11 | ‘ I 've bought a number of good-quality second-hand items and they 've all been excellent value . |
| 12 | They had both been ardent followers of such causes as Shelter , Freedom from Hunger and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament , the popular issues of the day for caring people with deep moral convictions . |
| 13 | They had never been close friends but they had got on well ; lately , however , a gap had opened . |
| 14 | They had never been observant Jews ; they had been steeped in German , not Jewish , culture and identified with it . |
| 15 | It is almost as if they had never been wild elephants — but only the day before yesterday , they were . |
| 16 | They had always been careful hands , and she sensed an extra reverence in them now . |
| 17 | They had all been staunch Congregationalists , and Mary occasionally felt sad that she had left it all behind in childhood . |
| 18 | They have both been occasional golfers , which they still enjoy when on holiday in Spain or Portugal . |
| 19 | I 've been lucky enough to play with several international captains — Colin Deans , Gary Callander , Finlay Calder and David Sole — and they have all been splendid leaders , different in their own ways but earning the respect of their colleagues . |
| 20 | They have always been notable sources of reference for serious scholars , of course , and there have always been just a few teachers and parents who have made it their business , over the years , to arrange educational visits both for themselves and for schoolchildren . |
| 21 | On the occasions I have returned it has usually been late afternoon . |
| 22 | It has only been burning coal in it ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( This is why , in the media , it has always been Tory governments that have created new radio or television channels , whether Radio Clyde , Granada Television , London Jazz Radio , or Channel Four . ) |
| 25 | She noticed that his hair had scissor marks in it , as if it had just been dry cut . |
| 26 | For months it had apparently been common knowledge ; something to be tutted over and discussed in hushed tones that stopped abruptly whenever she entered the common-room . |
| 27 | Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun . |
| 28 | On the one hand , the narrowly hierarchical nature of British education and the vested interests in maintaining it have undoubtedly been powerful forces at work [ Barnett , 1986 ] . |
| 29 | It 's certainly been great fun with Durham and they are working wonders . |
| 30 | It 's always been rough place |