Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been so good sea sick . |
| 2 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 3 | Mr Rivers , I 've been away visiting friends , you know . |
| 4 | I 've been too busy auditioning . |
| 5 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 6 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , Excuse my delay in replying — I have been very busy marking examinations , etc . |
| 7 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 8 | She 'd been under medical care . ’ |
| 9 | You 've been very patient Mr . |
| 10 | Lately , you 've been so busy bullshitting your way through the world that you 've started swallowing the stuff yourself . |
| 11 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 12 | She had been so busy avoiding touching him , she had not even noticed it was there . |
| 13 | Because we 'd none of us done much , we 'd been too busy lying in the sun ( I mean too lazy ) and looking at great pictures to do much drawing or anything . |
| 14 | erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er |
| 15 | Here in Ulster , we 've been so busy saying that we are British that we have lost our true identity . |
| 16 | we have been most upset Gordon and I about |
| 17 | Almost all of us can recall a time in our lives when we have been under emotional stress and have become ill as a result . |
| 18 | We have protected pensioners and other pass users for at least the last two or three years when we have been under considerable pressure to abandon free travel . |
| 19 | Remember the Philippine jailer , he cried out there to the apostle Paul who was , er in jail there with Silas they , they 'd been that tremendous earthquake , and they were released , all their fetters was was were broken , and the prisoners were all , could all have escaped ! |
| 20 | ‘ They have tried to lead normal lives since the girls disappeared , but they 've been under great stress and anxiety . ’ |
| 21 | They had been very heady years . |
| 22 | Erm people spitting er obscenities , obscene gestures , er we 've had two assaults er but they have been relatively minor assaults as far as we 're concerned . |
| 23 | The nationalities concerned are generally Lutheran ( Estonians and Latvians ) or Roman Catholic ( Lithuanians ) by religion , not Orthodox , and they have been under Soviet rule for a much shorter period of time than most other nationalities , since 1940 rather than the immediate post-revolutionary period ( when communist-led governments were briefly established in all three republics ) . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , they have been potentially major incidents . |
| 25 | In Leicestershire their probate inventories show them to have been essentially large-scale farmers , generally working 100 acres or more , sometimes occupying two or more farms extending into more than one parish , renting additional pastures , and with few exceptions distinguished from plain husbandmen by superior wealth . |
| 26 | He has been under 24-hour guard in his cell in Gibraltar 's grim 13th century prison since slashing his wrists and groin with a razor blade three months ago . |
| 27 | But he has been under intense pressure recently . |
| 28 | Perhaps he has been too busy writing letters to his colleagues in the Cabinet — a matter to which I shall return later . |
| 29 | ‘ Since 1987 , 270 Darlington companies have gone out of business and it has been overwhelmingly small companies . |
| 30 | It has been very good experience for my future career . ’ |