Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 2 | How could I have been such a fool as to take him seriously ? |
| 3 | How could I have been such a fool ? ’ she wailed through her tears . |
| 4 | Oh , I do hate him — I 'm so miserable — I 've been such a fool ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been such a fool . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been such a fool ! ’ |
| 7 | I do n't know catarrh but er I 've been thirsty the last few days |
| 8 | I 've been thirsty the past couple of days . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been patient a long time , nonya . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 11 | She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time . |
| 12 | She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ? |
| 13 | How could she have been such a fool ? |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 … ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've been such a help , ’ she said , brushing aside Loretta 's half-hearted attempt to make a contribution . |
| 17 | You 've been such a help . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been such a brick for carrying on while I was away . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 20 | Anything that kept her from running into Nicolo Sabatini was absolutely fine , which was why she had been delighted a few mornings later at the breakfast-table when he 'd told her he would be away for a few days . |
| 21 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 22 | Anna thought about the needlework classes of her schooldays , in which she had been such a conspicuous non-success . |
| 23 | She had been such a fine woman . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had been such an innocent victim from the start it seemed only fair to help her all they could now . |
| 26 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 27 | ‘ If you mean drugs , then no , Adam , you 're way off line and you have been all the time — as you 'd realise for yourself if you 'd just open your eyes and see the truth instead of what you want to see . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We , we 've been all the way round now . |
| 30 | We 've been all the way round now . |