Example sentences of "been [adj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously some misshapen warped creation like Alex ; shame flushed heat all through her that she had been willing to give herself to some disgusting pervert . |
| 2 | As he was a very busy man , I was grateful that Eliot should have been prepared to see me without any notice at all . |
| 3 | They had been lucky to find it in this hilly and heavily forested terrain . |
| 4 | But Tom Poole 's cousins at Marshmills were not invited , and would in any case have been horrified to find themselves among this conclave of radicals . |
| 5 | I have to say that the Pro GAP would n't be my first choice in any rack system because each time I 've used one I 've been unable to rid it of that ‘ overprocessed ’ synthetic edge . |
| 6 | With × 20 it is not hard to locate , somewhat to the northwest of Zeta and in the same field with it ; I can glimpse it with × 12 and suspect it with × 8.5 , though I have never been able to see it with any lower magnification . |
| 7 | This particular person had found the shock so great that she had not been able to acknowledge it at all except by taking this evading action . |
| 8 | ‘ Your sister 's been able to supply us with most of the details we need . ’ |
| 9 | As it was , Europe had not been able to supply herself with all her needs since the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | She reminded herself that it was not Paul 's fault ; and yet , somehow , he should have been able to shield her from this kind of outrage . |
| 11 | Losing them was bitter , and my only reward is that now I can afford the one thing which with all my wealth and power I 've never been able to permit myself until this moment . |