Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've been good all week |
| 3 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 8 | ‘ 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 ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 10 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 11 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 12 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 13 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |
| 15 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |
| 16 | The defence which had been suspect all season became vulnerable and the forwards simply could not score goals , so poor Palace fell out of the bottom of Division Two . |
| 17 | She 'd been convinced all along that eventually she must lose him , that Marianne was right — some other attraction must inevitably draw him away . |
| 18 | But then , she 'd been lonely all her life . |
| 19 | You 're both hot right now and you 've been hot all your lives . ’ |
| 20 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 21 | I suppose you 've been charming that splendid lady Mrs Reynolds . ’ |
| 22 | She had been awake all night and was looking forward to taking a nap . |
| 23 | She had been strange that morning , even before the row over her car , and dressed strangely . |
| 24 | That winter had been savage , she had been savage that winter . |
| 25 | She had been aware enough of him before . |
| 26 | At the time , advertising was full of the best and the brightest Oxbridge type , not someone coming from Sussex who had been left-wing all of his life , like Philip . ’ |
| 27 | Indeed , when I visited the Pride Club recently , I got talking to a gay man who had been present that night and remembered it with anger and disgust . |
| 28 | But this caused Aboyeur to veer away from the rails and collide with Craganour , carrying him out towards the centre of the course and interfering with the finishing runs of Nimbus — who had been far enough back at Tattenham Corner for his jockey to have seen the suffragette incident — and Great Sport , both coming up the stands side . |
| 29 | I 've got five or six people here who have been water-skiing all their lives , and there 's no way any of them can do it . ’ |
| 30 | Second , while adults who have been blind all their lives report no visual dreams , and have no measurable rapid eye movements using EOG measures , they do have periods of low-voltage EEC with reduced muscle tone , consistent with REM sleep , " and if mechanical sensors are used to assess eye movement , it appears that their eyes do indeed wiggle about during these sleep phases . " |