Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 2 | The economic history of Byzantium has in the past been examined too much in isolation from the general course of medieval economic history . |
| 3 | So it was only in the nineteenth century when all the loopholes had been stopped up that marriage became in fact what it had always been in theory , indissoluble . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 5 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 6 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 7 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 8 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 9 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 10 | It amazed me to think that even though the gay bar had been situated up those dark stairs for many years , the straight men downstairs managed to keep up the impetus so that no queen should pass without an insult . |
| 11 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 12 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 13 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 14 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 15 | The cloth could have been placed there half an hour or so later . ’ |
| 16 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 17 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 18 | As has been pointed out many times in the past , sport is n't played on paper , it 's played on grass . |
| 19 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 20 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps Dorothy had been shielded too much , and again in her marriage she had been protected , so that there had been nothing in her life to prepare her for what was happening now . |
| 22 | In England this system has not been developed so much as in other countries . |
| 23 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 24 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 25 | If they should have been given even more ‘ porridge ’ , then their belief that their own status made them beyond the rule of law was insufficiently punished . |
| 26 | The new audience was a mass audience but no previous audience in history had ever been given so much careful attention . |
| 27 | Melanie had never been given so much as a sixpence for herself all the time she had been at the shop . |
| 28 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 29 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 30 | The attitudinal function has been given so much importance in past work on intonation that it will be discussed separately in this chapter , though it should eventually become clear that it overlaps considerably with the discourse function . |