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Sentences starting with been

Been dead three years--how could it cry? [5]
Been reading Daniel Webster's Private Correspondence. [5]
Been married three times; buried two husbands, divorced from the third, and I hear she is getting ready to marry an old fellow out in Colorado somewhere. [5]
Been there ever since; afeard to come out. [5]

Sentences ending with been

I shall show you that when she recovered her health, her mind was changed, she was not what she had been. [5]
For a dozen years, by operations, various, secret, untiring, he had been laying the foundations for his success, and in the maturing of his schemes it became apparent how vast his transactions had been. [4]
Cynthia listened, and wondered what language Miss Duncan would use if she knew how great and how complete that change had been. [9]
He began taking with her as a physician; he wanted to know how her rheumatism had been. [6]
Yet, without you, who can tell what he might have been? [11]
Afterward I remembered who and where it had been. [10]
The Greek words which Langethal wrote in my album, and which mean "Be truthful in love," were beginning to be as natural to me as abhorrence of cowardice and falsehood had long been. [10]
She asked him where he had been. [2]
In the room where he awaited the verdict of the expert, he kept saying to himself: "She would have made everything else look cheap--if it could have been. [11]
I can remember when you were perfectly precise and exclusive, and--" "What an awful prig I must have been! [11]

Short sentences using been

Mischief had been wrought. [5]
I been so wicked. [5]
Had I been watched, detected? [11]
You have been very fortunate. [9]
I have been very foolish. [5]
This had been unexpected. [10]
You've been a truant--haven't you? [9]
It has been tried. [5]
Everything has been tried. [5]
Some had been torn off. [9]

Sentences containing been two or more times

Both have been zealous Democrats; both have been zealous Republicans; both have been zealous Mugwumps. [5]
A vivacious, eager youth had duped her and had promised happiness to her sister instead of to her; it had been hard to bear--and yet, the Saviour of whom Hellos had told her, had been far more severely tried. [10]
I've been with you thirty years, come December, Mr. Pindar, and you've been a good employer to me. [9]
I should tell you that this doubt has been confirmed into something very nearly approaching certainty by the best opinions we have been enabled, in this short space of time, to take upon the subject. [12]
If I understood you rightly you meant to imply that your life had been attempted, and that one of those extraordinary old men devoted to Serapis had been murdered instead of you. [10]
But you--where are you going, where are you coming from, what have you been doing since you left me, what had you been doing before? [12]
David had not yet been fortunate with his own business--the settlement of his Uncle Benn's estate--though the last stages of negotiation with the Prince Pasha seemed to have been reached. [11]
In all the years Krool had been in England he had never been inside a place of worship or given any sign of that fanaticism which, all at once, he made manifest. [11]
He had been wronged in much by his father, and maybe--and this was the cruel part of it--had been unwittingly wronged, alas! [11]
If these are wrong reasons, then I have been wrong; but I have certainly not been selfish in it, because in my greatest need of friends he was against me, and for Baker. [7]

More example sentences with the word been in them

But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
Y' been hurt, y'rself, 'n' the' 's murder come pooty nigh happenin'. [6]
Everybody knows that you've been badly used-- everybody. [11]
And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
General Grant and yourself have been conspicuous in our most important successes; and for me to interfere and thus magnify a breach between you could not but be of evil effect. [7]
You 'll find yourself a very odd piece of property after you 've been through these experiences. [6]
What has been your work in life? [11]
I expect that your 'M'sieu' Jean Jacques' has been busier this last year than ever before in his life. [11]
My visits to your mother have been to me a comfort, a pleasure,--for she is a rare person. [9]
I received both your letters, and although I have not answered them it is not because I have forgotten them, or been uninterested about them, but because it appeared to me that I could write nothing which would do any good. [7]
When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
On Sunday morning your letter came, and you have thus been spared the visitation of the unannounced and unsummoned apparition of Currer Bell in Cornhill. [14]
I can't deny your instances, and yet I somehow feel that pretty much all you have been saying is in effect untrue. [4]
Remember me to your husband, and tell him, that Captain Allertssohn's body has been brought in and to-morrow is appointed for the funeral. [10]
And we assure your Highness that for this mark of honour that has been conferred on you by Her Most Gracious Majesty, the Queen-Empress, we feel no less proud than your Highness. [5]
We again offer your Highness our warmest felicitations for the honour that has been conferred on you. [5]
In my opinion, your good swords have been rather long idle. [10]
She has played your game handsomely--I've been in her confidence. [11]
I see by your eyes that you have been weeping. [10]
I disagree with your beliefs, but I do not think that your pursuit of them has not been sincere, and justified by your conscience. [9]
Come, I think your account with my father is squared; and I want you to vote to put my father's son in Parliament, and to put out Barode Barouche, who's been there too long. [11]
But when the youngest went, she commenced the work as soon as she reached the lodge; although it had always been occupied, still the Indians never could see any one. [5]
Such as the young man was now the old man must have been, and what the son should one day be might be seen--and I rejoiced to think it--in his father's figure and face. [10]
He is a young man of a sterling though undeveloped character, who has been hampered by an indulgent parent with a large fortune. [9]
Your friend's the young man from Witherden's office I think--yes--May we ne'er want a-- Nobody else at all, been, Mr Richard? [12]
He still a young man but no longer a young diplomat, as he had entered the service at the age of sixteen, had been in Paris and Copenhagen, and now held a rather important post in Vienna. [2]
And has the young lady really been carried to the damp room? [10]
No one but young Hillyer had been intimate with Flint Buckner; no one had really had a quarrel with him; he had affronted every man who had tried to make up to him, although not quite offensively enough to require bloodshed. [5]
These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
I'd made sure you'd played hookey and been a-swimming. [5]
I'd think of you; of our people that have been here for two hundred years; of the rooms in the old house where mother used to be. [11]
I never wronged you; I have only been your blister. [11]
Before it reaches you, you will have seen and read my pamphlet speech, and perhaps been scared anew by it. [7]
I have told you, Richard, there has been no sensation in town equal to that of your Maryland beauty, since Lady Sarah Lennox. [9]
Lucky I found you, or you'd have been sleeping till the Great Mass. [11]
The trouble with you, my dear Hugh, is that you have never failed," she went on, "you've never had a good, hard fall, you've always been on the winning side, and you've never had the world against you. [9]
If I'd been you, I'd rather have hung --ah, sure! [11]
I am sure you, as a reasonable man, would not have been wounded could you have heard all my words and seen all my thoughts in regard to you. [7]
Clear out with you!--you've been guilty of a great crime, you whelp! [5]
Please answer as you would do, on my requirement, if the act of June 15, 1864, had not been passed, and I will so use your opinion as to satisfy that act. [7]
And now, since you will not put me quite at my ease by assuming, in words, that I have been properly 'chaperoned' here, I must inform you that my father waits hard by--is, as my riotous young brother says, 'without on the mat. [11]
Yes, those among you who have not been in the penitentiary, if such there be, are better than your fathers and grandfathers were; but is that any sufficient reason, for getting up annual dinners and celebrating you? [5]
Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
I knew that you were not mixed up in politics, but I also knew that you were an intimate friend of Jethro's, and I thought that you had been let into the secret of the woodchuck session. [9]
I'm going now,--unless you want to hear some more about the plots I've been getting into. [9]
But I wish you to understand that, though I am unwilling to go upon this platform, you are not at liberty to draw inferences concerning any other platform with which my name has been or is connected. [7]
It's kind of you to take it like this, sir, seeing you've never been tempted and mightn't understand. [11]
I therefore beg you to make allowance for the circumstances in which I have been by surprise brought before you. [7]
I would advise you to drop in there some time when you have nothing to do for--five minutes--if you have never been there: It seems to me the noblest monument that this nation has yet erected to her greatness. [5]
I'd willingly spare you the climb, but he's watching for the carrier-pigeons that have been sent out, and won't even come down to his meals. [10]
I cannot give you that to which you have been accustomed all your life, that which you have here at Fairview, but I shouldn't say this to you if I believed that you cared for them above --other things. [9]
I confess to you that I've been a little afraid at times that you'd take after Jonathan's father. [9]
Suppose I told you that he was intriguing now, as he has been all along, to obtain the nomination for the governorship? [9]
By and by you sober down, and then you perceive that you have been drunk on the smell of somebody else's cork. [5]
No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
I've been thinking you over lately. [9]
Manners will tell you of their kindness to us, but I vow I have not been able to see it. [9]
I have found you my true and faithful friend, and I had been in danger of believing those over-anxious counsellors who spoke evil of you. [10]
I will tell you more about this at some future time; I need not conceal it, for it has been no secret. [10]
I am sending you mine, in this letter; and am glad to do it, for it has been greatly admired. [5]
I have always you know, been looking for something. [4]
And you, sir--don't you know there has been somebody ill here, that you knock as if you'd beat the door down? [12]
Did you see--do you know anything that makes you think he had been trying to do that? [8]
Had it been you it would not have mattered. [11]
My note to you I certainly did not expect to see in print, yet I have not been much shocked by the newspaper comments upon it. [7]
What more have you heard concerning the first books of the Annales of Tacitus, said to have been discovered in the Corvey monastery? [10]
I don't say you haven't been foolish, but it's Howard's fault quite as much as yours. [9]
For some reason, you haven't been down at Leith much this summer. [9]
Neither any thing you have presented me, nor anything I have otherwise learned, has convinced me that he has been unfaithful to this charge. [7]
I know what you have done for me--" "I pleaded with Monsieur Fournel, knowing how you loved the Seigneury-- pleaded and offered to pay three times the price--" "Yourself would have been a hundred million times the price. [11]
This is what you have been working on? [9]
In your words you have been kind to me, but yet you have threatened me. [11]
Try and forget you have been kicked. [5]
But explain where you have been for this week past. [9]
Now I know you have been asleep for an hour. [4]
It's true that you have always supported me in luxury,--that might have been enough for another woman. [9]
Oh, I wish you hadn't been so bold! [9]
I believe, if you had been there, you would have forced me to get into debt. [14]
But better if you had been that woman in the Morgue," he said without pity. [11]
I yield to you from necessity too; from policy besides; and because of feelings that have been a pretty long time working within me. [12]
I've been onto you for a good while; though there was nothing I could spot certain; but now I've got you, and I'll break the 'perfect friendship' or I'll eat my shirt. [11]
I hear of you everywhere with Mr. Fox, and you have been to Astley's with my Lord March. [9]
I've been watching you every step, and you've acted strangely this morning. [9]
But why did you choose a detail of my question which could be answered only with vague hearsay evidence, and go right by one which could have been answered with deadly facts?--facts in everybody's reach, facts which none can dispute. [5]
I know that you bemoan the manner in which he has been brought up; but such late repentance must be avoided like poison. [10]
See here --have you been training with that ass again--that radical, if you prefer the term, though the words are synonymous--Lord Tanzy, of Tollmache? [5]
How long have you been in the spirit land? [5]
How--how long have you been here? [9]
Now, then, have you been considering the proposition that no act is ever born of any but a self-contenting impulse--(primarily). [5]
But you have you been back to Silliston since I saw you? [9]
How long have you been aboard here? [5]
In brief, sir, you are the kind of lad I should have been had not fate pushed me into a corner, and made me squirm for life's luxuries. [9]
You are strong, you are brave, and I come of a family that have been strong and brave. [11]
By George, Joe, you are as handy at the game as if you had been in training for it all your life. [5]
You have been, you are a wolf--a wolf. [11]
Whoever you are, you are a gentleman, and you might have been my father or hers --or hers. [11]
We been expecting you a couple of days and more. [5]
The army passing yonder would have been enough to destroy down to the last man a force ten times greater than the number of his people. [10]

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