Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvie had come the closest she had ever been to begging . |
| 2 | This is the closest we have ever been to getting Ben back . |
| 3 | And from now on , he will be as fervently fanatical in his promulgation of Nazarean thought as he has hitherto been in trying to suppress it . |
| 4 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 5 | That it has been ‘ the only game in town ’ , as many have argued , has not meant that it has necessarily been worth following , either from an Israeli or a Palestinian view . |
| 6 | Since the knowledge required will be prescribed , the tendency will be ( as it has always been in teaching ) to present it in such a form as to be acceptable to the average child . |
| 7 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 8 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |