Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A problem with diagnosing lipid disorders is that everyone has been obsessed with examining fasting specimens , a requirement which presents two obstacles for diabetics .
2 Everyone has been nice to me . ’
3 I do hope that each and everyone has been hard at work encouraging your class members to renew their membership and getting new class members to join the Society .
4 Ernestine — everyone has been concerned about you . ’
5 Everyone has been excellent during this nightmare . ’
6 Competition among them has been intense in the past decade as a result of the switch to reimbursement based on diagnostic related groups rather than historic costs , a difficult regulatory environment aimed at reducing short stay hospital capacity and at cost containment , and a much tougher climate for research funding .
7 Whenever someone has been ill in hospital and has recovered sufficiently to go home , usually the first question asked is ‘ Have you got a family ? ’ .
8 I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end .
9 by that time I 'd been involved with .
10 ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal .
11 When I was a postgraduate student , for example , I was about to embark on a research project on a topic I 'd been involved in for many years .
12 I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear .
13 I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly .
14 I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon .
15 Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on .
16 Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange .
17 ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place .
18 It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to .
19 so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to .
20 I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to .
21 I 'd been miserable for a long time .
22 I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting .
23 But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’
24 You see , I 'd been accustomed to the guided progression of the last comfortable years at school .
25 It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that .
26 At first , when I did , I thought it was purely a physical dependence I 'd been afraid of , because I was so slow to understand .
27 But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something .
28 I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there .
29 I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical .
30 Maybe I 'd been wrong about Bonanza after all .
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