Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've obviously NEVER been in love or you d never think of it so vulgarly ! |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 3 | ‘ You look as if you 've only just been let out on parole ! ’ |
| 4 | I 've only just been talking about what we 're going to do . |
| 5 | I 've only just been looking for since then . |
| 6 | Ye they 've only just been put onto a home account . |
| 7 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 8 | I 've only ever been asked to write one travel feature . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've only ever been interested in one woman . ’ |
| 10 | Actually , I 've only ever been a member of a political party for three months of my life , and I resigned |
| 11 | I think the Labour Party 's heart is in the right place , they want to take a positive approach and do what they can to help industry , to train , to put more money into training youngsters for industry then we have a skill work force , not a cheap , not a cheap unskilled labour force , er , you know , which is what we , what 's happening now , because we 've just not been trained , they 're cutting the training , but it 's all the same , anyway you know , I , I , I do n't know , you say what can I do for ya , well er in the short run not much except to help the , the people who are on lower income and the children through the budget er which will be introduced , it 'll be that why er through er child benefits and through er high , high benefits and through er , er lower taxes for the , everybody up to er twenty odd , twenty five thousand year or something , so , erm I mean that 's in the short run and little that can be done , it 's not as much as anybody would like , you put more and more into , into er , into training , er more money into industry to help them to invest , er you know you can have a sort of regional development banks to help industry to invest these in , in each of the regions , but I mean the , these are the positive plans and not like this one who 's just letting things go . |
| 12 | Er I 've got two I 've just just been two schoolkids who are not doing very well and they the end of term they 've you know the teacher 's said they 're sort of very far behind and they need to do some work during the holidays . |
| 13 | They 've just about been cut flush . |
| 14 | I 've just now been singing . |
| 15 | ‘ Nelson , I 've just never been much of a dancer . |
| 16 | The bells did n't work and I do n't know who put the names there , they 've just always been there . |
| 17 | No , they 've not been , th they 've just like been cut flush . |
| 18 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 19 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 20 | I 've also just been lent a political fiction saga by one of Mrs T 's former advisers which is said to be excellent . |
| 21 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 22 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 23 | ROS : I 've frequently not been on boats . |
| 24 | And so I 've quite often been in Stromness and somebody said to me , how are you getting home tonight ? |
| 25 | I 've absolutely never been a Jason Donovan fan before Christmas number one 's going to be Bohemian Rhapsody which I do like you know |
| 26 | The overwhelming blackness , the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning ; I 've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity . |
| 27 | I 've never not been seen by a kid . |
| 28 | You 're not English and you 've never even been to England . ’ |
| 29 | I 've never even been to Highgrove , and that 's the truth . |
| 30 | I 've never even been to Scotland and my mother was certainly never chased by a Scotsman . |