Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I had to ramble about something — the list has been really quiet the last few days . |
| 2 | Anyway , I 'd been very busy the day before and Doreen had irritated me for other reasons . |
| 3 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 4 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 5 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 6 | Why my paternal so-called grandparents had been so stuffy the only time I met them . |
| 7 | Her cheeks , which had been so white the previous evening , now had colour , and instead of sagging with exhaustion she radiated the extraordinary vitality that had so attracted me at our first meeting on the Cutty Sark . |
| 8 | It had been so exciting the last time with one plane . |
| 9 | She had been too long the creature of thought , and now she had seen . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been very busy the last two days , ’ the big dog announced proudly . |
| 11 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 12 | It 's been fairly blustery the odd day but there 's frost and especially the snow that they 've had down further south it seems to be helping us up here I would say and it 's with the with the land work especially got the slurry and stuff of that kind . |