Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] [vb -s] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the detached voice of reason judiciously intervening without allegiances into a debate in which it has been for the most part silent.3 The intervention reinforces the distinction between what Proust 's text does to itself and what de Man does to it , positioning him with the reader at a critical distance from , and therefore in shared judgement of , his own argument . |
| 2 | At all stages in the development of armory , and in all the centuries during which it has been in use , there have been two conflicting underlying factors , and it is important that the local historian be aware of them from the outset , so that if false trails are followed they are not followed for long . |
| 3 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 4 | She tells me she has been to every temple on the Greek islands of Mykonos and Santorini . |
| 5 | ‘ But you keep telling me she 's been in love with me for years . |
| 6 | er when , mind you he 's been in his job for a while now . |
| 7 | Erm the R M I F bloke was there and he said that 's the second one he 's been to where they 've been doing the training and the launch at the same time and neither of them 've gone well . |
| 8 | I 'm not very good at them Mum gave me that one it 's been in quite good condition but |
| 9 | But it is the language of the statement and the comments attributed to Edwards that are likely to cause further friction between him and both local climbers — with whom he has been in conflict in the past — and the BMC . |
| 10 | He he 's been on everything here . |
| 11 | I said you know what she 's been like with this young girl at college you thought |
| 12 | you do n't even know what he 's been in |
| 13 | But — ’ she turned to him , eyes brimming with tears , ‘ — you do n't know what it 's been like , trying every day to live a lie … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You ca n't think what it 's been like . |
| 15 | You know what it 's been like ever since we left the Store . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ How do you know what it 's been like ? ’ she accused . |
| 17 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 19 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 20 | They are that the public expect Britain to be defended and want Labour to be what it has been for most of its history — a party prepared to provide resources commensurate with defending this country . |
| 21 | This is what it has been like during the dry season in Brazil for the past two years . |
| 22 | ‘ I admit that 's what it has been like in the past . ’ |