Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 2 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 3 | I 've been good all week |
| 4 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 6 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 7 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 8 | I 've been married three times . |
| 9 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 10 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been worried sick . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been worried sick for such a long time now , I 'm afraid my mind is playing me tricks . |
| 13 | ‘ Because I 've been worried sick ever since I saw your car . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 15 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 17 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been ready three years , Victor . ’ |
| 19 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 20 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
| 21 | I have been married three and a half years , and the last year has been very difficult . |
| 22 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , sweet , innocent Ma absently cuts my fish fingers though I have been self sufficient in the cutting of food since before my fourth birthday . |
| 24 | Christophe Lázar : For the past two years I have been active expanding Colnaghi 's presence in Europe , Asia and South America . |
| 25 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |
| 27 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |
| 28 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 29 | She 'd been convinced all along that eventually she must lose him , that Marianne was right — some other attraction must inevitably draw him away . |
| 30 | But then , she 'd been lonely all her life . |