Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adj] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 2 | I had been happy at Magdalen and this was a moving occasion . |
| 3 | I 've not watched any videos or television all day because I 've been hard at work . |
| 4 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 5 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 6 | She had been good at art at school and , had the war not come , she might have tried to make a career out of it . |
| 7 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 8 | Vron confirmed that she had been good at art as a schoolgirl , often praised by her art master . |
| 9 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 10 | Having to tell a teacher you have been naughty at home . |
| 11 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 12 | But Wednesday are also under orders to smarten up their act and Worthington admitted : ‘ Although we are playing well enough , we 've been sloppy at times and have not stuck our chances away . ’ |
| 13 | He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again . |
| 14 | They have been hard at training ever since their one point victory over the famous Dubs in the semi-final a few weeks ago . |
| 15 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |
| 16 | Because of this it has been popular at cat shows in the United States for several decades . |
| 17 | Although he had been late at Emma Chisholm 's dinner party last week , he had seemed perfectly sober , but you could never tell with alcoholics . |
| 18 | He had been unopposed at Bewdley , but his two principal colleagues , the Chamberlain brothers , found their majorities uncomfortably reduced , Neville 's to the very edge of defeat . |
| 19 | There are numerous examples of the poor quality of court-appointed lawyers ; John Young went to his death even though his trial lawyer had signed an affidavit admitting he had been ill-prepared at trial due to drug use , the recent break-up of his marriage and the discovery of his own homosexuality ; another attorney had his breath checked by the judge for signs of alcohol , another was found to be in contempt of court after arriving back from lunch drunk … and so I could go on . |
| 20 | He had been surprised at Sam 's willingness to stay , and had even felt a flicker of jealousy when he had flopped contentedly down in the grass beside the boy 's feet . |
| 21 | Twice he 's been ready at Oxford 's John radcliffe hospital — twice he 's been sent home . |
| 22 | And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool , dark attic , which the writer nervously visits from time to time ; and yes , oh dear , while he 's been hard at work downstairs , up in the attic there are puckering skins , warning spots , a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes . |
| 23 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |