Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 2 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been second five times in the last three years and I 'm over the moon to have got home first at last . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been good all week |
| 5 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 7 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 8 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 9 | I 've been married three times . |
| 10 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 11 | I I I 've I 've been these these routes before |
| 12 | M. What do you think I 've been these last two months ? |
| 13 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been worried sick . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been worried sick for such a long time now , I 'm afraid my mind is playing me tricks . |
| 16 | ‘ Because I 've been worried sick ever since I saw your car . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 18 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 20 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 21 | erm No , no I do n't think so , I 've erm been a successful I 've been more successful that most and I it would appear greedy if I erm said that there was something that I think I would have done differently . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been ready three years , Victor . ’ |
| 23 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 24 | I have been two hundred miles south of Moscow . |
| 25 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
| 26 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 27 | I have been married three and a half years , and the last year has been very difficult . |
| 28 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , sweet , innocent Ma absently cuts my fish fingers though I have been self sufficient in the cutting of food since before my fourth birthday . |
| 30 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |