Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 2 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 3 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 4 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 5 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 6 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 7 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 8 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 9 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 10 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 11 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 12 | The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight . |
| 13 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 14 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 15 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 16 | By mistake I had been put through not to the hospital but to a psychiatric ward . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been thinking about how the constituent parts of the two people and the car could be transmogrified and reassembled — if Cardiff 's surmise is correct , that is . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking about how to maximise your display at the business fair . |
| 19 | You 'd be on the line for a certain amount of publicity , but I 've been looking at today 's papers and it seems you 've already had a taste of what the Press can be like … ’ |
| 20 | I 've been looking in there . |
| 21 | I 've been going for so long I can do everything . |
| 22 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 23 | Now I can say I 've been mixing with both the noble and the notorious . |
| 24 | I 've been juggling for about 5 months and it 's a good place to meet new friends . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been wondering about how she died , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Yeah and and the other thing which I , actually I 've been laughing at here is because you were laughing at yourself when you were asking the questions . |
| 27 | I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt . |
| 28 | Like Mr Nicholson , I have been commuting for more than ten years from Fife , but hardly ever by car , which I find is too nerve-wracking and frustrating an experience and almost as bad as commuting by bus . |
| 29 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 30 | What I have been referring to vaguely as the knowledge system , Fodor calls the central systems . |