Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to think she would be worthy in time of being my mistress , which till now I had been a little scrupulous about . |
| 2 | The nurse said I had been a very good patient . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I 've been a little obtuse , Fran . ’ |
| 4 | If I 've been a little abrupt , then I sincerely apologise . |
| 5 | I have been a little surprised at the extent of recent interest . |
| 6 | But , I have been a little concerned th th the the term , equal opportunities has n't been mentioned once today , and I would like a reassurance that it 's not because it 's year 's or the last decade 's issue . |
| 7 | Theirs had been a terminally ill situation with so few worshippers in so large and expensive a building . |
| 8 | " She has been a fairly regular correspondent , " Matthew laughed . |
| 9 | They 'd say things like , ‘ Glen , you 've been a really naughty boy . |
| 10 | You 've been a very good boy right ha flowers are floppy |
| 11 | You 've been a very brave little girl , have n't you ? |
| 12 | She had let me see a draft of it , and I fancied that she had been a little timid about the dénouement , which was death in a motor accident , and feared that her own terrible anxiety over her son in the past might have inhibited her . |
| 13 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 14 | To have such a thing happen — when for a lifetime she had been a perfectly normal agnostic , like everybody else . |
| 15 | She had been a very affectionate child , climbing on Cecilia 's knee to hug her , sitting with her arm round her father and her head on his shoulder . |
| 16 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |
| 17 | She had been a somewhat delicate woman for some years and the long and Perilous sea voyage to Australia had taken its toll . |
| 18 | The S.M.O. said you had been a very good night special in Hope . |
| 19 | You have been a very real help to me . |
| 20 | She 's been ma she 's been a really constant The constant devotion that she had |
| 21 | We had been a little apprehensive about our chosen date as the May Fair was in full swing in the streets of Leominster , but everyone managed to reach the right car park and transport their offerings for a bring and buy produce stall which raised over £30.00 for the College Appeal . |
| 22 | ‘ We have been a little silly sometimes in the past , do n't you think , Hilda ? ’ went on Viola . |
| 23 | ‘ We carefully assess our use of intensive care beds and over the last 12 months we have been a little concerned that , at times , they were full , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 24 | , John ( fl. 1415–1450 ) , composer , has left us about twenty compositions whose style proclaims him to have been a slightly younger contemporary of John Dunstable [ q.v. ] , perhaps a close disciple . |
| 25 | She had convinced herself that the intense impact which Vitor d'Arcos had once had on her had been a much exaggerated memory , the figment of an overheated imagination . |
| 26 | They have been a very popular means of dealing with a wide variety of functions which ministers want to encourage , to finance and to guide , but which would not fit easily into the structure of a government department . |
| 27 | The author of that book seems to me to have been a very sick man indeed . ’ |
| 28 | He has been a most valuable player a record three times . |
| 29 | He has been a most valuable player a record three times . |
| 30 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |