Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been such [art] " 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 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 7 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 … ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been such a help , ’ she said , brushing aside Loretta 's half-hearted attempt to make a contribution . |
| 11 | You 've been such a help . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been such a brick for carrying on while I was away . |
| 13 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 14 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He has been such a good , kind husband . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 24 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 25 | Always , in the past , it had been such a jolly day . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It had been such a confusing time for her — the quarrel with Stephen and her mother 's death following so closely . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It had been such a lovely evening . |
| 30 | It had been such a stupid little exchange , the words in themselves meaning nothing , yet here she was , trembling like a colt . |