Example sentences of "have [be] [art] fool " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 2 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 3 | She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool . |
| 4 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 5 | She 'd been a fool , a stupid crazy fool , too blinded by love to see that she was being used , too mesmerised by longing to realise Adam wanted only her body . |
| 6 | She 'd been a fool to think one polite little apology would be enough to put everything right between them . |
| 7 | ‘ He may have been a fool , but I do n't think that was an accident . ’ |
| 8 | He must have been a fool for her er , you know ? |
| 9 | He had been a fool to get himself so worked up . |
| 10 | I used to think your father had been a fool to go , ’ murmured Lucenzo . |
| 11 | She had been a fool to let Muriel choose a place to have lunch and would take good care that it did not happen again . |
| 12 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 13 | She had been a fool not to anticipate that a guard would be keeping a hidden watch on fitzAlan 's door . |
| 14 | All that mattered was that she had been the fool . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been a fool , ’ he went on . |
| 16 | I 've been a fool and more than a fool . |
| 17 | I 've been a fool , have n't I ? |
| 18 | ‘ It 's I who have been a fool — for five intolerable , hideously long years , ’ he added softly , gently wiping the tears from her eyes before covering her upturned face with butterfly-light kisses that made her heart sing for joy . |