Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 2 | I had never been happier . |
| 3 | I had never been fitter or stronger . |
| 4 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 5 | I 've never been happier . |
| 6 | I have rarely been angrier than I was that day . |
| 7 | I have never been clearer in my wits . |
| 8 | Myself , I have never been happier . |
| 9 | I have never been further from suicide in my life , though I imagine my friends would find it quite opportune . |
| 10 | Nobody has even been better in bed than Constanza and Ludovico . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd travelled half round the world , seen and done things she could only guess at , while she 'd never been further than Kingswood when she 'd been taken to be viewed as apprentice to a nailmaker . |
| 12 | You 've never been higher than Number 42 ’ , but Prof Eno sorted it out by letting her organise the singalong . |
| 13 | You 've never been fitter , so make the most of it . |
| 14 | She thought she had never been happier , not even in Seville , which was peculiar because in Seville they had been free . |
| 15 | Fleur Adams had spoilt Dana in every way she could , to the exclusion of Claudia , who had always been closer to her father . |
| 16 | We 've never been busier . |
| 17 | Our company is based on sound and we stand or fall on it ; since the introduction of Smooth Tubes we have never been busier and it is insulting and naive to suggest our success is based on a few LEDs . |
| 18 | This week up to 20 have been reported in the grounds of Darlington College of Technology , 45 in Jesmond , Newcastle , and a smaller group at East Boldon , South Tyneside , while there have also been further sightings in Washington . |
| 19 | There have undoubtedly been worse atrocities in areas where no one can go . |
| 20 | I do n't think anybody 's ever been better , except for Sol Hoopi , the steel guitar man , who was never really recorded properly . |
| 21 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 22 | In this sense they had never been closer . |
| 23 | They had ever been larger than common in their aspirations , and the shadow they cast was correspondingly deep . |
| 24 | Since they had all been longer than I in Kampala , they were taking what all expatriates ( including all American Embassy staff ) take : chloroquine plus proguanil hydrochloride ( Paludrine , a British ICI-manufactured drug not yet approved by the American Food and Drug Administration ) . |
| 25 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 26 | But he has never been busier and in the past year has taken on three full-time staff . |
| 27 | But he has never been fitter and , with sponsorship from Lunn Poly for the first time , is giving his best shot at winning for Britain . |
| 28 | His coach Ron Roddan says that , at 32 , he has never been fitter , that the disappointment of the World Championships last year , in which he ran his guts out and finished fourth , provided the final necessary impetus to give everything for this final race . |
| 29 | He has his independence and he tells me he has never been happier in his life . |
| 30 | Eventual physical breakdown of the material is delayed by careful preparation of the substratum and it has always been safer to lay asphalt on concrete roof slabs than on timber boarding . |