Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know catarrh but er I 've been thirsty the last few days |
| 2 | I 've been thirsty the past couple of days . |
| 3 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 4 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 5 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 6 | When in July , for example , he was asked to testify for the London Library against a rating valuation , he was visibly nervous before giving his testimony ( it seems , according to Rupert Hart-Davis , that he had been awake the whole night before ) . |
| 7 | If he had been angry the previous day over the matter of the raid on the Bedfordshire farm , he was by now almost hysterical with rage . |