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 | I do n't know catarrh but er I 've been thirsty the last few days |
| 3 | I 've been thirsty the past couple of days . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been patient a long time , nonya . ’ |
| 5 | She 'd been half-expecting a trial and then a labour camp but instead , there was an ambulance . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been asleep a long time . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Still , he was young and she had been afraid the house would be full of only old people . |
| 9 | That is , in addition to the tendency to feel tired because we have been awake a long time , there is some rhythmic change that decreases our fatigue at some times and increases it at others . |
| 10 | And they 've been trendy the last two or three seasons , they 've been back with the classics have n't they ? |
| 11 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 12 | If someone had told him that he 'd been angry a moment before , he would 've denied it . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd been ill a long time . |
| 14 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dr Nanayakkara said Liam 's death had caused him grave concern and he had been eager a specialist children 's pathologist should carry out the post-mortem examination . |
| 18 | I mean they 'll just they 'll just have it sat there empty , it 's been empty a year now . |