Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 2 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 3 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 5 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 6 | In a few cases I realised with surprise my growing frustration was due to my inability to interject my own comments into the workshop ( which has been filmed several years previously ) . |
| 7 | Justice Minister Kobie ( H. J. ) Coetsee announced on March 22 that the ban on unauthorised political and protest meetings without written permission from a magistrate , which had been renewed each year since 1976 , would lapse on March 31 . |
| 8 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 9 | Earlier , there were bitter exchanges when Labour 's Alun Michael ( Cardiff S and Penarth ) demanded to know why the Government had not built a single one of 65 secure units for juvenile offenders which had been promised two years ago . |
| 10 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 11 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 12 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 13 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 14 | She had been served four years of a life sentence for the murder of her baby son . |
| 15 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 16 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 17 | The three members who have been chosen this year are Ron Waldron and John Ryan , two former national coaches , and John Maclean , one of the union 's national representatives who is also chairman of Llanelli . |
| 18 | You have been given two years not only to investigate historical thinking and knowledge but also to practise the dynamic process of essay writing . |
| 19 | She 's been gone two years and you never asked before . ’ |
| 20 | Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels . |
| 21 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 22 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 23 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 24 | ‘ We have been putting 150 years of empirical behaviour onto one program so there have been inevitable delays , ’ he said . |
| 25 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 26 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 27 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 28 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 29 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 30 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |