Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 3 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 4 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 6 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 7 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 8 | ‘ Why do you think I 've been avoiding you today ? |
| 9 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 10 | ‘ Why the hell do you think I 've been holed up here since yesterday ? |
| 11 | What do you think I 've been doing ! |
| 12 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 13 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 14 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 15 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 16 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 17 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 19 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 20 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 21 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 22 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 23 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 24 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 25 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 26 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 27 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 28 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 29 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 30 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |