Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [adv] be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 2 | I 've just been explaining that Angela seems to have gone missing . ’ |
| 3 | She could hardly say , ‘ I 've just been told that I 'm pregnant again , ’ because it was only a matter of a week or two . |
| 4 | ‘ Not too good , ’ I said , ‘ I 've just been told that Punch is closing . ’ |
| 5 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 6 | I I 've just been told I 've just been told that our entire switchboard is totally lit up . |
| 7 | I 've just been told that I will receive a grant from the Education and Library Board , which will be used to support my children and pay part of the course costs , ’ explained Nikki . |
| 8 | I 've also been told that some of my shots would make very good ‘ New Age ’ album covers , so you never know . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 10 | Although I 've always been saying that the lower ranked players should get more money , and we should re-distribute the money . |
| 11 | I have also been asked whether it would be possible to make partial exemption orders under section 48(1) of the Shops Act . |
| 12 | ‘ I have already been asked that question several times under druggings of Veritas . |
| 13 | do a bit of shopping so yeah , I have n't been doing that this last few weeks but , any |
| 14 | This mighty work has moved me as I have not been moved since I discovered the symphonies of Gustav Mahler some 35 years ago . |
| 15 | In the result I have not been persuaded that any doubt has been cast upon principles which are soundly directed as being both desirable and reasonable and which furthermore have for long been firmly established by authority . |
| 16 | As my own thank-offering I would like to try briefly to express some thoughts on education by which I have long been troubled and to which no place , for reasons which I will show , could be more appropriate than this . |
| 17 | However , inner-city speakers normally , and quite consistently , have [ ae ] and [ Ε ] in items where the vowel precedes a velar consonant ( as noted above ) , and I have sometimes been told that this is affected by RP . |
| 18 | ‘ I have always been determined and have always set myself goals . |
| 19 | ‘ I have always been determined and I think that helped to get me through . ’ |
| 20 | In part , it says : ‘ I have not met bad people , I have never been robbed and whenever I left a village , people waved me with tearful eyes . |
| 21 | Or indeed the work that you 've just been discussing that we 've all pursued jointly in pinning down the government on the transfer of undertakings directive . |
| 22 | You 've just been told that you are to take over the job of manager for O A Z Company Limited . |
| 23 | Yeah you 've always been told you 've always been told that they are . |
| 24 | Anyone with a history of injuries ( or if you have already been skiing and suffered one ) will benefit from a session on their Cybex analysis machine ( £30 ) which sagely tests joint and muscular strength at different resistances . |
| 25 | Of course there 's I do n't know whether you 'd well you wo n't if you have n't been involved but we for the last last year and this year we 've had this children from er there 's a a sort of Nottingham University |
| 26 | If you have just been told that your child has HIV , and if this was unexpected news , the shock will be overwhelming at first . |
| 27 | erm , and with agencies like Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise so a lot of the stuff we get in is written and we have to reply |
| 28 | Any illustrations for the scene we 've just been doing and the things we 've already been talking about , or any new ideas . |
| 29 | We 've already got that have n't we ? , we 've already been told that have n't we ? |
| 30 | and someone and we 've now been told that we have to pay for it , and I |