Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 2 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 3 | ‘ Some of them have 58-inch wheels and seeing one has been described as looking like a gothic cathedral coming towards you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 5 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 6 | The ‘ relevant ’ skills learned concern the ability to plan projects , to apply mathematics as and when appropriate , to sustain work on them until some conclusion is reached and to communicate what has been learned to other people . |
| 7 | Clarify and summarise what 's been said and pick up on points in stories : ‘ And then ? ’ |
| 8 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 10 | ‘ They all live in the Sydenham , Inverary Park , Holywood Road , and Garnerville area and say they have been feeling very unwell . |
| 11 | You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from . |
| 12 | My comrade who had talked and named me had been tortured very badly . ’ |
| 13 | Wexford had seen that glass and teak lamp in a Kingsmarkham shop and noted it had been priced at twenty-five pounds , one and a quarter times Hatton 's weekly wage . |
| 14 | She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done . |
| 15 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 16 | One , Yvonne Morgan , said anglers on the riverbank were an invasion of her privacy and claimed she had been subjected to abuse and foul language . |
| 17 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 18 | Once there he held a much-publicised news conference during which he ridiculed American intelligence and claimed he had been held in captivity by the CIA . |
| 19 | YWA 's answer to the Guest Tea has been the annual Treasure Hunt and Barbecue which has been enjoyed by many Edenderry members and friends in recent years . |
| 20 | In actually physically up dating anything , I would suggest that at this point that Simon does n't do of them until after the next meeting when we have got all the other 's together as well because again they may attach things , just that you 've got your information and know what 's been decided and do the whole lot after the next meeting . |
| 21 | They wanted to mention the extension of nursery activities into the home , the importance of talking with the child , of playing together and sharing what has been learnt at nursery — also that staff are willing to listen to what parents have to say about happenings at home , and welcome comment and suggestions from parents . |
| 22 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 23 | Teachers constructing lists for students no doubt remember these books from their youth and are therefore more conscious of their failings and believe them to have been superseded by their own books and those of their colleagues . |
| 24 | I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions . |
| 25 | For those who love Churchill partly because of his warts and feel they have been waiting too long to hear the case for the prosecution put eloquently and with impeccable soundness , ‘ it is a delight ’ . ’ |
| 26 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 27 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 28 | Their design was a radical departure from the traditional concept of a tramcar , and incorporated features of styling and comfort which had been seen only in motor-coaches of the day . |
| 29 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 30 | But first , Nicholas walked uphill back to the manor with Loppe , and in the office there read the ledgers and saw what had been done . |