Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a one-off film for Chaplin and he was well aware that to have sustained that role and that theme would have been to sacrifice much of his great following and to have become an artist with a more sectional support . |
| 2 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 3 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 4 | That hateful inspector had dragged her away , even though Ma had been weeping enough to fill a kettle . |
| 5 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 6 | Indeed , had Sheffield referee John Key not been so lenient , Wright could have been dismissed two or three times over . |
| 7 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 8 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 9 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 10 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 11 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 12 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 13 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 14 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 15 | What time we were gon na be viewing houses but we 've been to see two . |
| 16 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 17 | I 've just been to see one of our early arrivals in his cabin . |
| 18 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 19 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 20 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 21 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 22 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 23 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 24 | We do n't want to find ourselves with any comic exposure unless all the parameters have been examined in-depth . ’ |
| 25 | But that rescue mission had been stopped dead by the presence of the twenty thousand Frenchmen encamped in Frasnes who had been sent by the Emperor to make sure that the allied armies did not combine . |
| 26 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 27 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 28 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 29 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 30 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |