Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb base] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 3 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 4 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
| 5 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 6 | In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before . |
| 7 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 8 | This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped . |
| 9 | Yeah , you know two times I 've been , and me eyes are going right mad . |
| 10 | he wo n't let them talk , it 's disgusting , I tell ya , you know , no end of times I 've been in there and it 's obvious we 're waiting for chips |
| 11 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 12 | People I have worked with I 've identified as having problems that I can see some sort solution to in terms , for instance , of hospital treatment erm at times I 've been unable to erm to do that because the Act is very difficult to work round erm and in retrospect I 'm very |
| 13 | In the general run of life in a river this may be very true , but many times I have been able to take barbel and chub from the same swim simply by altering the depth at which my bait is fishing . |
| 14 | In recent times I have been able to go down to the hostel , where my good friend Richard Megson gives me the opportunity to wash in lovely hot water . |
| 15 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 16 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 17 | None of my friends have children and all the mother-and-toddler groups I have been to are full of older mums . |
| 18 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 19 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 20 | Over the years the G M B has been a major part of our family life the night meetings sometimes being away from home the disputes I have been involved in you have shared them with me and listened to me , and because of my involvement you have always supported me . |
| 21 | But the subjects I have been concerned with recently have been more directly related to my own experience of life : the situation in Northern Ireland ; the Gulf War ; my thoughts have come closer to home . |
| 22 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 23 | and twice in the last nine months I 've been in the United States and I was amazed at the number of very large women |
| 24 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 25 | I I did enjoy going to the city centre , but so far er in the few months I 've been in , I 've enjoyed it tremendously yes . |
| 26 | Nine years and two months I 've been in love with Chris . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 28 | My Lords i in the eighteen months I 've been privileged to be a Member of Lordships House , I 've often asked myself what our functions are . |
| 29 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 30 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |