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Example sentences for "been very"

  • Well, you've been very kind, Miss Rand, I shan't forget it.

  • I've been very cowardly, Adela, about a number of things.

  • The press certainly have not noticed it much, and what they have said has been very luke-warm.

  • But for Adela the suddenness had been very dreadful.

  • George did not quite understand what this meant, and remained silent; but at one moment it was almost on his tongue to say that it ought at least to be admitted that the borrower had not been very pressing in his application.

  • I've been very much to blame, but it's all over now.

  • I've been very much to blame; but you have always had a lot to put up with in my ways of doing things.

  • You've been very good, William, in keeping the worst of it from him.

  • That Guss Mildmay should have accepted such an invitation was natural enough, but she thought that Jack had been very foolish.

  • She was aware that she had been very uncourteous, and was not sure whether in her anger she had not been carried further than became her.

  • A few minutes ago the Dean had been very stout in his assurances that everything was well with his daughter, but he was by no means unwilling to take advantage of her interesting situation to forward his own views.

  • You and I, George, haven't been very lucky in our marriages.

  • You've been very good-natured t' let me have your drum.

  • As regarded Kenneby, he must say that the man had been very stupid.

  • It was now some days since he had left Noningsby, and those days with him had been very busy.

  • Seeing that she had not sunk, we may say that her strength had been very wonderful.

  • You've been very kind, Radie; I assure you I'll never forget it.

  • I've been very importunate--I prized the honour I sought so very much, I forgot how little I deserved it.

  • Miss Lakeman hasn't been very well, sir," the servant answered, and showed him into a charming room where there was a divine view from the open windows.

  • But though its effect upon the quantity of the annual produce may not have been very considerable, its effect upon the quality, it may perhaps be thought, must necessarily have been very great.

  • The expense of their own civil government has always been very moderate.

  • That the mercantile system has not been very favourable to the revenue of the great body of the people, to the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, I have endeavoured to show in the fourth book of this Inquiry.

  • Carneades, too, was a Babylonian by birth; and as there never was a people more jealous of admitting foreigners to public offices than the Athenians, their consideration for him must have been very great.

  • Newton had, on the whole, been very popular at Olney.

  • During the civil wars of the preceding century fast days had been very frequent.

  • She's been very good to me, I know, and I've got much to be grateful for.

  • Of course it seems dull to you, but my life's been very different.

  • It hasn't been very exciting, and if I could really help him--" she broke off.

  • I know you've been very good to my little Maggie; at least when I say 'my little Maggie' she's not mine any longer.

  • I can't help thinking you'll feel you haven't been very wise.

  • I hear you've been very generous to him, Aunt Laura," Dick said.

  • You've been very decent to Virginia, and she likes you; and I should like to have an opportunity of ingratiating myself with Susan.

  • I've been very extravagant, and now I've got to pay for it.

  • There was one person present to whom the description can hardly have been very agreeable.

  • Yes, I'll come again--not that I've been very comforting.

  • We've kept up the forms of civility--but it's been very distant.

  • I've been very selfish, and I'm very ignorant.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "been very" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    away from; been allowed; been called; been captured; been carried; been committed; been decreed; been discovered; been doin; been established; been formed; been guilty; been having; been known; been left; been otherwise; been produced; been revealed; been sitting; been thinking; been through; been trying; been wondering; been written; her cheeks; ounce each