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- I have been in Paris.
- The battle had been raging for some time.
- You've been a very good girl.
- His little army had been beaten and scattered.
- She was uneasy because she had never been on a plane before.Advertisement
- I have not been sick at all.
- We've been away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get home again.
- Where in the world have you been, my lad?
- He has been called the Father of his Country.
- May each evening see that all thy wishes have been performed.Advertisement
- He and Uncle Hugson have been having a fine visit.
- What have you been after?
- Gilbert de Lafayette's father and grandfather and great-grandfather had all been brave and noble men.
- The little chest that held his clothing had been carried down to the bank.
- He began to ask about his enemies who had been hunting him.Advertisement
- We've been married for nearly five years, and we just made love.
- Maybe Katie wasn't the only one who had been overlooked by Señor Medena when it came to inheritance.
- It was recognized as the flu, although records describe conditions which were highly likely to have been polio.
- There has been much discussion of such of Miss Sullivan's statements and explanations as have been published before.
- Lately she has been much interested in colour.Advertisement
- But scientists have been busy sequencing all manner of things.
- She had evidently been reading, and fallen asleep.
- Well... they had been flirting with each other in the car.
- He was a great hunter, I have been told, and a celebrated shot.
- They had never been anywhere else overnight together.Advertisement
- These were two Frenchmen who had been hiding in the forest.
- We've been in the dark quite a while, and you may as well explain what has happened.
- If he had been the only child in the family, things might have been different.
- They were angry because their plans had been discovered.
- These same questions had been asked me a hundred times by the learned doctors.Advertisement
- We've been sitting here too long!
- But then, Alex had always been fluent in pretty talk.
- He had had a short illness, there had been a brief time of acute suffering, then all was over.
- He has been set down.
- She's been sleeping a lot.Advertisement
- It's been almost a week.
- If you hadn't happened to find the piglet, Eureka would surely have been executed.
- When has starting a business been so easy?
- This has been a common situation throughout areas with high degrees of poverty and is certainly the case in Ethiopia.
- That should have been the end of it, right?Advertisement
- That beverage was already known to the French and had been given a special name.
- And yet, in a way, waiting this long might have been an advantage.
- More like Dulce has been talking to me.
- Do you think everything they have done has been with the single ambition of getting third-party information out of you?
- Everybody was astonished, for that boy was the best scholar in the school, and he had never been known to break a rule.Advertisement
- Both are better off than they were, even though nothing new has been created.
- In 2005, rice became the first crop plant whose complete genome had been compiled.
- What else has been achieved in our march toward civilization?
- The morning had been fine, but it was growing warm and sultry when at last we turned our faces homeward.
- Besides, I have been told that "sociables" cost more than other kinds of bicycles.Advertisement
- She had been with me to take letters to the post-office.
- She had been living in a world she could not realize.
- It wouldn't have been so much fun for him if she had reacted the way he did when she told him she was pregnant.
- Actually, she hadn't thought how it looked to others - and there had never been any doubt in her mind that she was fortunate to have Alex.
- Maybe Alex wanted to be in control because he had been dominated all his life.
- Water would have been her choice.
- But it would have been alright if I had?
- Actually, Dulce had been disrespectful with every look and word.
- You've been a comfort to me.
- I've been going on and on.
- That would have been more convincing if you hadn't been so willing at first.
- His day had already been disrupted enough.
- I've been sitting right over there.
- It's been more than that for a long time - or am I only imagining things?
- Mom said Dad hasn't been feeling well, and he won't go to the doctor.
- Until now, there hadn't been much time.
- Had the idea only been a clever method to gain favors?
- I've been picked over six years, but our family is known to be especially long lived.
- Dorothy climbed into the buggy, although Jim had been unharnessed from it and was grazing some distance away.
- And the whole thing has been unnatural because that cat and I are both able to talk your language, and to understand the words you say.
- The captain himself had been a robber.
- But if I had not helped you, you would have been in a worse place.
- Smallpox has been with us for thousands of years.
- Ever since we've had agriculture, people have been employing technology to make it better.
- In the past, humanity has been able to sustain both wars and progress.
- Wars have often been the result of misunderstandings brought about by language.
- Being educated in the United States has long been a mark of distinction for the elites of other nations.
- But my teacher had been with me several weeks before I understood that everything has a name.
- Until then I had been like a foreigner speaking through an interpreter.
- She has not had a vacation for twelve years, think of it, and all that time she has been the sunshine of my life.
- We could hear the yells of the boys and the cheers of the lookers-on as plainly in our room as if we had been on the field.
- In order to answer her questions, I have been obliged to read a great deal about animals.
- A child of the muses cannot write fine English unless fine English has been its nourishment.
- A bed had been made on a bedstead for the countess only.
- Certainly she had been under a lot of stress.
- Right or wrong, the decision had been made.
- Not that one had anything to do with the other, but the technology of surrogacy would have been inconceivable back then.
- I've been getting the feeling she is trying to break us up.
- Has she been disrespectful of you?
- Have you been talking to Dulce?
- Apparently something had been discussed in her absence.
- Alex should have been there to see that.
- He would have been so proud.
- He'd been in a grumpy mood since he got up.
- No one could have been more private than Josh.
- I should have been checking it.
- The hardwood floor had not been stained.
- He seemed sincere, but it could have been an act.
- I sure hope you're going to deliver what you've been promising all evening.
- You've been quiet for weeks - since we left Texas.
- It must have been a smorgasbord.
- Maybe we would have felt this way with them if things had been different.
- I guess he's always been a part of me... one I've wasted most of my life trying to remove.
- Not like I wanted to take him away from the man who had been a Dad to him.
- Had he been blaming Señor Medena for the death of his Dad?
- If the boy had been his, how would his good intentions have made her husband feel?
- She could have been a model.
- I should have been with them tonight.
- It was something she had been told often, but never expected to be asked.
- But you haven't been working there all that long.
- I know you've been preoccupied, but everyone else has noticed his interest in you.
- Hard as it was to admit, the embrace and the kiss had been comforting.
- Had his offer been as impulsive as her acceptance?
- How could she have been such a fool?
- You could have been killed today, you know that?
- If it had been anyone else, I would have accepted that, but she liked to control people.
- She had been so distracted with her own troubles that his interests and needs had been ignored.
- But I don't like the way I've been treating you.
- You've been through a lot.
- It might have been something she would suspect if she had ever seen him in the pool.
- He hadn't been accepted as their roommate because he was pretty.
- I've been trying to catch you since you left the lounge.
- Then they were locked in a passionate embrace, seeking and finding the love they had been pushing aside for so long.
- That's what I've been wanting to tell you.
- If she hadn't been there in his arms only minutes ago, she never would have guessed he had been so aroused.
- I love you and it's been miserable without you.
- If they all hadn't been so close, she would have thought he didn't hear the question.
- How long had it been?
- She had thought she could never be coerced, but the truth was, she had never been tempted.
- They must have been attacked some time during the night.
- She kept her vigil for what must have been several hours.
- When the last horse had been gone for a few minutes, he stood.
- How long would the Indians wait before they realized they had been fooled?
- Bordeaux had been leading the horse along the ravine to spare its hooves, but it had been a risk that hadn't paid off.
- The landscape around them was bleak, almost as devoid of plant life as the white sands had been.
- She was taking liberties he had been gentleman enough to resist.
- Where had they been?
- More important, what had they been doing?
- We've been invited to stay for breakfast.
- Nothing has been going on that you wouldn't be welcome to watch.
- Neither of them had been in high spirits yesterday.
- He had been preoccupied yesterday with his business in Ashley.
- I've been looking for you every since.
- If she hadn't witnessed his exchange with the woman earlier, she would have been certain he was disappointed.
- She hadn't been given that much consideration.
- We've been on the same stage since Ashley.
- There was no point in telling them that riding with Bordeaux hadn't been her idea.
- Still, he had been with Darcey only minutes before.
- But their conversation... was an expression of love for a sibling – siblings that had apparently been through a lot together.
- Haven't you been through enough danger in the past two weeks?
- If all their conversations in the three months he had been coming to the diner were put together, it was doubtful that they would make a respectable paragraph.
- How long have you been working here?
- We've been all through this a zillion times.
- The years had not been kind to him.
- She sipped her coffee reflectively and finally found the courage ask him a question that had been nagging her since his offer.
- She didn't own a swimsuit, so bra and panties had been her option.
- Had she been flirting - unconsciously?
- You've been around that furry thing so long that you're beginning to look like him.
- I think you've been working too hard lately.
- Had that been the purpose for his trip to town?
- Was that what their conversation had been about today?
- Mary had never been the jealous type, but then, where love was concerned, people changed.
- Was she blinded by love now, or had she merely been unobservant before?
- She had been so sure it would never happen with her consent.
- She had been a willing participant.
- Their friendship had been destroyed by one night of passion.
- You haven't been in to see Mary for a while.
- She gazed up at him, completely disarmed by his smile, and yet somehow proud that she had been the one to put it there.
- Hadn't she been entirely accommodating?
- What a fool she had been.
- But no, she had been so certain, so naive.
- Had it been that long since she talked to Mary?
- Has it always been on the farm?
- The only thing she had been proving lately was that she could successfully avoid him.
- All her dreams had been dashed - all but one.
- Until now she had been thinking of no one but herself.
- The house has been unbearably lonely without you.
- We chatted briefly, agreed to have coffee and have been nearly inseparable ever sense.
- Just think; they might have been real people you were seeing.
- How many times have any of us been involved in an event remotely exciting?
- It's been tough on Howie.
- Oh, and tell him I swear not to look at what other girl's he's been calling... cross my heart, like fun!
- It's been a part of me since the dogs of law released from their barred kennel.
- Have you been sick?
- They advanced in a great swarm, having been joined by many more of their kind, and they flew straight over Jim's head to where the others were standing.
- His fame had not been forgotten in the Land of Oz, by any means.
- They show that three toes have been lost from the left forefoot.
- The summer had been very dry and the corn crop had failed.
- He had now been a wanderer for twenty days.
- They let you fall into the water, and you would have been drowned, if it hadn't been for me.
- Has there ever before been a time when business opportunity was more blind to color, gender, or creed?
- Science's progress over the past few hundred years has been determined mainly by the relatively slow speed at which we were able to collect data.
- You are being helped by an excellent salesperson who has been working there for twenty-five years.
- In the last thirty years there has not been a single smallpox death or even a single infection.
- Even smallpox has been sequenced and is available for download.
- Even with this technology called money, trade has been difficult.
- The disturbing thing to realize is we would have been those people had we been born in those times.
- Monarchy is not inherently bad, and there have been fine kings and queens in history.
- As a historian, I know it has been the vanity of every age to think it represents a high point in history.
- All the best of me belongs to her--there is not a talent, or an aspiration or a joy in me that has not been awakened by her loving touch.
- Teacher has been sick in bed for many days.
- Consequently, I did not do so well as I should have done, if Teacher had been allowed to read the Algebra and Geometry to me.
- Thus far my summer has been sweeter than anything I can remember.
- My mother, and sister and little brother have been here five weeks, and our happiness knows no bounds.
- She has never been taught; but they say she can sew and likes to help others in this sort of work.
- Her life has been a series of attempts to do whatever other people do, and to do it as well.
- Her progress in arithmetic has been equally remarkable.
- In this, as in all other things, Miss Sullivan has been the wise teacher.
- You've been in a hurry.
- The whole day had been hot.
- It was long since there had been so stormy a meeting.
- He had for some seconds been intently watching what was going on a few steps away.
- It followed that there must have been a victory.
- You've already been in action?
- The French who had been pursuing him stopped.
- What has he been doing all this time?
- During the last few days many of the men have been seen to throw away their cartridges and their arms.
- All day it had been calm and frosty with occasional lightly falling snow and toward evening it began to clear.
- The lower stakes cracked more and more and at last the wall fell, and with it the men who had been pushing it.
- If it had been from the cold, ours would not have rotted either.
- Natasha had been staying at her brother's with her husband and children since early autumn.
- He's always been so alert and in control.
- That must have been really difficult for you.
- They must have been close, and yet, to the best of her memory, Alex had not spoken of Gerald.
- Of course, she could have used sign language, but that would have been distracting - and it wouldn't have been as personal.
- My, aren't you the night owl tonight - the boy who has been dancing with me half the night.
- I guess we could say he hasn't been around much.
- If it had been for both of them, they would have invited some of her friends - like Katie and Bill.
- The subject was how Mary had been a vessel to carry the son of god.
- I know life would have been a lot simpler for me.
- She released the breath she had been unconsciously holding.
- Actually, her first morning of sickness had been unpleasant, until she discovered the cause was pregnancy.
- If he had simply ignored her, she might have been able to get her emotions under control, but now a sob threatened so convincingly that she was afraid to breathe.
- A piñata had been hung from one of the banisters above and the children of some of the employees joined them.
- You all have been so nice to us, and we've enjoyed our stay.
- He had never mentioned what Christmas had been like at his home.
- Maybe because it had the same theme of wrought iron and ivory as the hacienda - and maybe they had been visiting too long.
- Other than an infatuation with Josh before she met Alex, there had been no one else.
- He had been spending too much time with the television lately.
- If he trusted her, he wouldn't have been snapping at her as if she had done something wrong.
- What have you two been arguing about, and why did you kiss your brother like that?
- Was that what they had been arguing about?
- He's been clear enough about that, and yet it's being pushed on him.
- Right now she'd like to kiss those smooth lips - and she might if she didn't know where they'd been last.
- And yet, if Señor Medena hadn't been so pushy, would he have accepted the inheritance?
- Who could say what might have been if the smallest thing had been different in their lives?
- She had been the one who pushed him back into it.
- Had they all been arguing?
- Three weeks ago she would have been embarrassed by such a conversation.
- That's what's been bothering me all this time.
- But we're married - and have been for a long time.
- I've been so focused on sin that I have been...
- That I've been making you miserable.
- Carmen let go of the blanket she had been clutching to her chest and turned to shut her light off.
- His excuse for going to Columbia had been that they needed money.
- If they hadn't been fighting, he might have been there when she started hemorrhaging.
- I know, we've been all through this before - but I still don't understand.
- You would have had to tell me about an entire family you'd been hiding.
- He didn't tell her about the money because it would lead to questions - both about the money and the fact that he had been hiding it from her.
- The files had been there all along and he had given her passwords and permission to look at them since they were first married.
- What a complicated situation Alex had been born into.
- He must have been overwhelmed with the responsibility - and guilt.
- Wouldn't it be wounded knowing he had been used to their advantage?
- She had been lying around all day catching up on her sleep while Carmen worked on her bedroom.
- As if Destiny had not been through enough already, she was forced to stay inside the tent.
- Someone from the church or clinic must have been by and brought it for Alex.
- Was God punishing Destiny because they had been greedy?
- He must understand what Alex had been through.
- He's been sick all morning.
- The line was silent for so long that she checked her phone to see if the call had been dropped.
- In a way, it was hard to believe it had been that long.
- Maybe she was right, and if Alex hadn't been such a perfect husband in every other way, she might have done it.
- Maybe that was what he had been so preoccupied with lately.
- I don't know what's been bothering you lately, but if I've done something, I wish you would tell me.
- No wonder he had been so solemn lately.
- It shouldn't be any surprise, since that was what suffered when he had been troubled in the past.
- They had been married almost five years, so... that meant the baby was conceived long before they met - about the time he and Tessa were going to get married.
- No wonder Dulce had been so upset.
- If Alex had known he had a son, things would have been different.
- Wouldn't it have been easier if you had told me?
- That should have been no big surprise, but Carmen would have thought he would welcome the idea of a willing heir.
- He said he felt bad about it, but conceded that Tessa had been less than honest with him on more than one occasion.
- When Alex approached Carmen about giving Tessa some money, she said it was up to him, but keep in mind that the issue could have been something like drugs.
- If it hadn't been for Katie, she might not have discovered that she was right.
- The only business experience she had was the goat dairy, the non-functional farm and a horse ranch that had been in the fetal stage for years.
- I'm afraid I've been putting on weight.
- There had been two cancellations on a flight and Alex grabbed them.
- It couldn't have been more than a few seconds, but it seemed much longer.
- In the weeks of natural stimulation, she had been the one who was embarrassed.
- Carmen had been his soul mate for a long time.
- Katie had been telling him that for years, but he hadn't seen it until now.
- As bad as the wreck was, it could have been worse.
- It was a moment that lay in her stomach like a week-long hunger, regardless of the fact that they had been gone only minutes.
- To an extent she had even been an accomplice.
- Allen had been drinking at the party a little more than usual.
- It would have been humiliating if anyone had noticed, but no one seemed to pay much attention – probably because so many others were also drinking.
- Of course, the little red truck Dad had been drooling over.
- How have you been, Len?
- Maybe Howard had been involved in an investigation.
- But they had been inconvenienced enough with all her problems.
- The car had been shut up long enough that it smelled of old upholstery.
- Solitude had always been her friend.
- What a fool she had been to come here.
- But after what you've been through, I guess it would seem like a picnic.
- The grass had been mown short for about five feet on either side of the narrow drive, and a tangle of underbrush and trees lay beyond... freedom, or a barrier?
- It had been foolish to climb into the car with him.
- It had been in all the local papers, but she wasn't sure she could talk about it without getting emotional.
- Maybe if I'd been with them...
- If you had been with them you couldn't have done anything to prevent the accident.
- The seclusion she knew well, having been brought up less than five miles from this house.
- She had always been a recluse at heart, often declining a social outing with her friends so that she could be alone with a book or her writing.
- Being close enough so that she could attend college while living at home had been their rationalization, but she suspected they were also trying to stimulate her social life.
- The trail couldn't have been a road... more likely a wash.
- I've been thinking about rigging up something on the front to catch the webs.
- It was a sobering reminder that a bear had been on this spot – possibly only minutes earlier.
- Geez. Looks like it's been hit by a locomotive.
- Even so, it was as if a something had been lifted from her chest, allowing the flow of oxygen and blood to a starving brain.
- As if she hadn't been a burden in enough ways, now she had Mrs. Giddon upset with him.
- It was a strange feeling to realize she had been in a cocoon for weeks.
- I haven't been so entertained in years.
- He and Sarah had done far more for her than could have been expected.
- Sometimes she imagined a large field of marijuana, but that would have been discovered long ago.
- The day she met him he had been riding on the road.
- And yet, if she hadn't come to this house, it would have been worse.
- He had been perfectly content to step back and let her bear the brunt of Giddon's anger, even knowing that he had arrived uninvited.
- Dating Allen hadn't been a good idea.
- His kiss had been an act of aggression, not passion.
- Had Allen been here to make a drug deal with Giddon?
- Was that why Giddon had been so angry?
- Besides, her lack of response in the past had been far more effective.
- Would she have been able to hear his conversation behind a closed door?
- What if she had been seriously injured?
- What if a snake had been in those bushes?
- Her directions hadn't been far off.
- And what would you have done if it had been a bear?
- Was he actually concerned about the fact that she might have been killed, or that his hideout might have been discovered in a search for her body?
- It must have been terrible for Yancey.
- There would have been, if Valorie had lived.
- So he hadn't been in Tammy's room all this time.
- I'm just beginning to see what I've been missing.
- If Howard had not been able to find anything on Yancey, it was probably because there was nothing to tell.
- You've never been here before?
- Tammy could have been born when he was very young.
- Maybe the letter had been intercepted.
- No one had been to that box before her.
- She had been making out with a man who might be involved in drug trafficking.
- Had there been another?
- She looked down at her plate before they discovered they had been observed.
- For a moment she wanted to retract the part about being entertainment, but when he spoke she realized it might have been ex