Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 2 | I do however think I have been able to help with the emotional problems of the artists here , especially the big dilemma of whether to have kids or not . |
| 3 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 4 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't know you 'd been married , ’ he said , in a low voice . |
| 6 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 7 | I expect she 's been bored lately . ’ |
| 8 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 9 | They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 11 | ‘ Grown-ups do n't mind being nasty to children but they do n't like other grown-ups to know they 've been nasty . ’ |
| 12 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 13 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 14 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 15 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |
| 16 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 17 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 18 | In The Times Higher Education Supplement David Hencke reported that many college and polytechnic directors believed that universities ‘ are relaxing their validation standards to enable former colleges of education to start new arts and science degrees ’ , and quoted Edwin Kerr as being confident that colleges succeeding with CNAA validation would consider it to have been worthwhile . |
| 19 | It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint . |
| 20 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 21 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 22 | It will be necessary to confirm that all restrictions have been observed and if they have not been observed , to confirm that consent to vary or discharge them has been forthcoming . |
| 23 | It says I 've been good at the doctor today . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 25 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 26 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 27 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 28 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 29 | Matt said , ‘ Silas says you 've been busy in the office . ’ |
| 30 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |