Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb base] [pron] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hitherto I believe it 's been accepted that the judiciary in Malawi are entirely independent and fair-minded . |
| 2 | we had our alarm ooh after five , William called us just in case we laid late , so we was on the move ten , ten past five , so I mean we 've been on the go perhaps two hours more than anybody else and eh , and then cos when , it was just like that , but it was down here now I thought to went to that down on his and a little |
| 3 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 4 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 5 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 6 | Well I think so I think it 's been identified but I do n't think it 's been followed through . |
| 7 | You know he was that tramp must have been an honest man because father said there was quite a little of sovereigns in that , and so I suppose it had been given to the parish and had seen that the man was properly buried , and then they discovered that he was an Aberdonian . |
| 8 | So I expect somebody 's been and er the er the door thing , you can get in the back way and in through the back door . |
| 9 | ‘ Just I know you 've been busy and enjoying your friends . |
| 10 | But usually I think ours have been it 's more it goes down to , not actual being but a an actual reading , it goes down to potentially what it 's capable . |
| 11 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 12 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 13 | ‘ Now I know he 's been trying everything he can to take my place and whatever James Hunt says , he does n't want it for nothing . ’ |
| 14 | well I know you 've been good . |
| 15 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 16 | Well I hope I 've been of some help . |
| 17 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
| 18 | Well I think it 's been a mans world , they , they 've had a wonderful time ! |
| 19 | Well I think it 's been awful interesting to see the pictures develop and like they 're so rough at first and they 're and more developed and they 're more things in them and the colours are getting more definite and everything . |
| 20 | Well I think it 's been done that 's the problem . |
| 21 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 22 | Well I think it 's been misrepresentative , misrepresented , sorry , in a variety of ways . |
| 23 | Well I think he 's been on before and he 's quite a decent chap , I think . |
| 24 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 25 | well I think she 's been fully occupied with your stuff since she came back , she has n't touched any of mine up to last night |
| 26 | sometimes I mean he 's been out when he 's had a drink , on call , sort of thing |
| 27 | Sometimes I think we have been too conservative and worried about things like a hi-hat not sounding right and we have lost the edge . |
| 28 | But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute |
| 29 | oh yes you 've got ta actually I think they 've been very good |
| 30 | I do n't know ho certainly I know there had been at least two peo different lots of people living in ours before we moved in , and I would think there were probably more than that . |