Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Turkish slaughtermen offer the ubiquitous Turkish tea , a strong bitter brew known as chi , which invariably precedes all conversations , and the RAOC Master Butcher and his three British and two Belgian butchers , who have been busy all night cutting and jointing , now prepare themselves to assist in the slaughter of the cattle and sheep . |
| 32 | She 's been absent several days this month . |
| 33 | Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day . |
| 34 | We 've been busy all day . |
| 35 | Perhaps they were too busy to feel queasy , but as far as I was concerned , before we had been airborne half an hour I felt like crying out , ‘ Stop the plane , I want to get off ! ’ |
| 36 | While there have been precious few literary models for black male writers to follow lately , there has been a boom in black women 's writing , particularly in the States , with the success of Alice Walker , Toni Morrison and now Terry Macmillan . |
| 37 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 38 | They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor … |
| 39 | ‘ They 've been ready this week past , ’ said Ednyfed Fychan , and swung to the door with alacrity . |
| 40 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 41 | They had been active all week , unsettling me with their noise . |
| 42 | Even Humberside county council is launching a campaign to show the people that they have been wrong all these years and should have loved it . |
| 43 | These are the forecasts of ace City analyst Nick Knight — and he has been right all the way through sterling 's crisis . |
| 44 | It has been chilly these past few nights . |
| 45 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 46 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 47 | See if it had been nice this Saturday we could 've gone and got the wheel back on the caravan but |
| 48 | His familiarity with his brother 's behaviour would be based on past form , something she had n't wanted to dwell on , for surely it had been different this time ? |
| 49 | Forced to devote his attention to the problem , he found he had succeeded in locking it when he had thought he was unlocking it , the reason being that it had been open all the time . |
| 50 | It made a good reason for those excluded to dislike Miss Morgan , but it had been true any time these past two years . |
| 51 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 52 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |
| 53 | Strudwick , still desperately trying to put rugby league on the map in the capital , said : ‘ It 's been hectic this week , having to dash to and fro from the training ground to the hospital . |
| 54 | Well it , it 's been stupid this laid on this settee falling down back , it 's blinking ridiculous , yeah , we 've just got back from hospital and they 'll send her a letter for er , to make an appointment for her to go back , to see what the treatment they 're gon na give her , so , will it go in Pete 's car ? |
| 55 | October is however officially winter , even though it 's been warm this year . |
| 56 | It 's been hot all the car is going along the motorway at a constant speed . |
| 57 | It 's been hot this like summer today is n't it ? |
| 58 | It 's been interesting these past few days to watch the energy of the sun through the effect that it 's had on the snow . |
| 59 | In fact , it 's been quiet all this week . |
| 60 | ‘ Of course , we were devastated , but we knew now what had been wrong all along — and at least they could n't blame me any more . ’ |