Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ?
2 After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them …
3 Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know .
4 These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse .
5 ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner .
6 Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel .
7 The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news .
8 At Flora Road , Witham there have been problems with unauthorised parking by travellers .
9 Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people .
10 First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists .
11 Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ .
12 Although there have been innovations in social care provision , which are outside the range of this book to review , there is still a tendency to fit people to services rather than vice versa .
13 The cliff contains pitchblende veins that have been sources of dissolved uranium .
14 ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says .
15 He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project .
16 They have worked together and have been friends for some time .
17 He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle .
18 There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) .
19 The 1970s and 1980s have been decades of unparalleled growth .
20 As a result , there have been changes to land-clearance contracts , including the replacement of grasses by leguminous species that provide a better protective cover and enhance the nitrogen content of the soil .
21 In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools .
22 ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas over the years , ’ said Dave Butterworth , managing director .
23 ‘ We have been pioneers in many areas including computational fluid dynamics in furnace design , research into compact heat exchangers , the exploitation of laser techniques in detailed flow measurement , and integrating advanced thermal design software with process simulators , ’ continues Dave Butterworth .
24 Should a member wish to put forward a resolution for discussion at this meeting , is must be signed by not less than ten members of the National Trust who have been members since 1 January 1990 or earlier and must reach the Secretary at 36 Queen Anne 's Gate , London SW1H 9AS not later than 15 June .
25 There have been reports of extrajudicial executions , killings and mutilations of civilians or captured members of armed forces and of the torture or ill-treatment of people detained by the various parties to the conflict .
26 More recently there have been reports of Chinese Muslims demonstrating in Peking .
27 But far more numerous have been depictions in light entertainment shows : often with regular ‘ gay ’ characters : the suggestion of a relationship between Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott in ‘ Hugh and I ’ ( early sixties BBC1 ) , and the John Inman character in ‘ Are You Being Served ? ’
28 No one knows exactly how many eligible people there are , because the last firm data comes from the 1981 census ; there have been extrapolations from those figures , but inevitably there is an element of guesswork .
29 As already noted there have been calls for national statements to encourage central and local government to develop sensitive and appropriate family and child care policies , and good child care service and practice .
30 There have been drawings on those investments , though , mainly , the the the main two have been to fund the redundancies associated with the reorganisation , and to grant a dowry to N A C V S , on its independence from the Council .
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