Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [det] a " in BNC.
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1 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
2 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
3 | Oh , I do hate him — I 'm so miserable — I 've been such a fool ! |
4 | ‘ I 've been such a fool . ’ |
5 | I 've been such a fool ! ’ |
6 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
7 | ‘ It do n't seem right , though , askin' for things when you 've been such a kind bloke to me , and doctored me as well . ’ |
8 | You 've been such a good and loyal friend to me all these years , and I know it was wrong of me to ask something so demanding of you , but … ’ |
9 | ‘ You 've been such a help , ’ she said , brushing aside Loretta 's half-hearted attempt to make a contribution . |
10 | You 've been such a help . ’ |
11 | ‘ You 've been such a brick for carrying on while I was away . |
12 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
13 | She had been such a fine woman . |
14 | Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often : mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child , sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down . |
15 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
16 | He has been such a good , kind husband . ’ |
17 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
18 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
19 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
20 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
21 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
22 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
23 | Always , in the past , it had been such a jolly day . |
24 | That was why it had been such a shock when the neighbours came round to tell Lily the baby was screaming and there was nobody answering the door or any lights on in the house . |
25 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
26 | It had been such a tight squeeze to get the Princess into the boat house at all , that someone had come up with the bright idea of removing the edge boards from the quay platforms on either side . |
27 | It had been such a lovely evening . |
28 | It had been such a stupid little exchange , the words in themselves meaning nothing , yet here she was , trembling like a colt . |
29 | It had been such a little hurt . |
30 | It had been such a traumatic , agonising time , even now she could n't talk about it without feeling pain . |