Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 2 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 3 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 4 | Oh , I do hate him — I 'm so miserable — I 've been such a fool ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been such a fool . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been such a fool ! ’ |
| 7 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 8 | She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time . |
| 9 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 10 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been such a help , ’ she said , brushing aside Loretta 's half-hearted attempt to make a contribution . |
| 12 | You 've been such a help . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been such a brick for carrying on while I was away . |
| 14 | ‘ It do n't seem right , though , askin' for things when you 've been such a kind bloke to me , and doctored me as well . ’ |
| 15 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 16 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 17 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 18 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 19 | We , we 've been all the way round now . |
| 20 | We 've been all the way round now . |
| 21 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 22 | But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter . |
| 23 | The traffic and the crowds were passing interminably in each direction , as they had been all the time . |
| 24 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 25 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 26 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 27 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 28 | If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it . |
| 29 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
| 30 | The hospital and all that went with it had been such an oasis in the alarming wilderness of doing everything for , and chiefly by , myself ; now it came to the point of leaving it , I was scared . |