Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
2 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
3 | Off the pair of us dashed and so were our hopes as of course nothing had been left uncollected . |
4 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
5 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
6 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
7 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
8 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
9 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
10 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
11 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
12 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
13 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
14 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
15 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
16 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
17 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
18 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
19 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
20 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
21 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
22 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |
23 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
24 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
25 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
26 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
27 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
28 | I think I needed a break I have been pushing really hard and was more tired than I was prepared to admit , ’ he says . |
29 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
30 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |