Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been art celebrities since then and , although the scale of their work has increased — pictures can now include several people , and stretch up to ten metres across — the real subject remains G&G ( as they sometimes describe themselves ) . |
| 2 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 3 | Even when they 've been pureed , I suppose . |
| 4 | So you 've been shit stirring . |
| 5 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 6 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 7 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 8 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 9 | The Beta version of Ultrafax from WordStar/Zsoft we 've been pre-viewing is the link between your Windows applications and the rest of the world 's fax machines , but offers more than just the facility to print your documents remotely . |
| 10 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 11 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 13 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 14 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 15 | So far , however , every road that we 've been down has turned out to be blind alley . ’ |
| 16 | They 've been ballroom dancing in Cheltenham Town Hall for 50 years now . |
| 17 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 18 | You look as though you 've been cry — ’ |
| 19 | Oh you 've been self- employed yes |
| 20 | And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land . |
| 21 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 22 | They 've been sort of so falsely jolly in the past , it sickens me . |
| 23 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |
| 24 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 25 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 26 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 27 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 28 | I do n't know oh They 've been telly that Tom give us , that give us and then I did n't put on |
| 29 | You 've been under-strain yourself over these last few weeks . |
| 30 | There are punching sound effects and speech ( via the internal speaker or sound card ) but the boxers react like a stuffed dummy when they 've been punch . |