Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 2 | We 've been inundated with calls from listeners wanting to know where you were . |
| 3 | A family who 've been saved from eviction by an anonymous donor say it 's the best Christmas present they could have hoped for . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been pestered by reporters for days , and it really is getting on my nerves . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been hooked on crisps for years . |
| 6 | There 's an in er a strong tendency to call the the testimony of people who 've been abused into question in this way . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been deluged with stories about the American nuclear industry over the past few years . |
| 8 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 9 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 10 | We 've spent twenty-four hours together and in that time I 've been bitten by bugs in a hooker 's bed , tied up a guy with no legs and stolen his wheelchair , stayed cooped up in a train for twelve hours with an attractive man and behaved like a virgin . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 12 | When you 're dealing with people who may want to buy retirement homes , er how do you describe them ? , they 've been described by Mr as the punters you see , how 'd you , what do you call them ? |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face . |
| 14 | They 've been used in Australia since 1952 , working for an airline founded by the father of the new owner . |
| 15 | She wished he would stop talking for now he was saying , ‘ I 've been associated with Harrods of London for many years . |
| 16 | But I 've been promised to Craig for years , I ca n't break my word . ’ |
| 17 | They 've been banned from sale in Oxfordshire , but hundreds are believed to be in circulation across the country . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been dogged by humbug for years , ’ he told me . |
| 19 | And so I 've tried to open it up er rather wider and w what I 've I 've I 've been put in touch with a a thing called the independent schools , design and technology association , which covers design and technology studies in all independent schools . |
| 20 | Eight properties have been completed as part of the first renovation phase . |
| 21 | For example , symptom diaries that have been completed in blocks of different coloured ink arouse a suspicion that the patient may have been completing the diary in blocks of days rather than daily . |
| 22 | In his own interests the licence-holder , when structural alterations have been completed in compliance with an order , should intimate that fact to the clerk to the licensing board . |
| 23 | My Department is writing to all those who have been registered as objectors to the applications , with details of the arrangements . |
| 24 | COMMUTERS on Merseyside have been warned of disruption on the railway network over the weekend , as engineers carry out essential maintenance work on the Wirral line . |
| 25 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 26 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 27 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 28 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |
| 29 | Studies defining the immediate 5' flanking sequences of class II MHC genes and their associated DNA-binding proteins ( 5-10 ) , as well as transgenic mouse models containing DNA constructs covering the promoter proximal sequences have been examined in detail by other groups ( 5,11-13 , ) . |
| 30 | All too frequently , as well , cemeteries have been examined in isolation from other components of the plan . |