Example sentences of "[been] [art] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . " |
| 2 | ‘ Then it must have been the stream running over the rocks , ’ said Betty . |
| 3 | This was after the 4472 hauled special , and may have been the final working into Hyde 's . |
| 4 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 5 | and then while he was upstairs seeing and helping his wife , then the the stove blew up downstairs , now that might have been the house saving from a real disaster whilst attacking his wife in a minor way , or it might have been pure coincidence . |
| 6 | While there may have been isolated instances which appear to confirm this interpretation ( for example , in 1970 the Soviet Union bought up Costa Rica 's excess of coffee , which may well have been a factor contributing to the establishment of diplomatic relations the following year ) , other such instances have been similarly small-scale and the evidence overall is against it . |
| 7 | Keith Sinclair and Gordon Lucking claim they have not been kept in touch with club affairs and that there has not been a board meeting since May last year . |
| 8 | Underneath had been a midget sitting on the shoulders of a tall black man . |
| 9 | The differences are deep and go far back into history , but while I have been a Minister dealing with the economy and the environment I have always had the greatest possible collaboration from all the parties in Northern Ireland , which have always worked cheek by jowl with one another and with me for the benefit of all the people of Northern Ireland . |
| 10 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 11 | We have now been a week living in our big bungalow and it is working out well — at least we are saving lots of money looking after ourselves . |
| 12 | The blow rattled the plane as if it had been a car bouncing through a pot-hole . |
| 13 | So , there must have been a force acting on you — sideways — to keep pulling you round . ’ |
| 14 | To her amazement he took this like a lamb , and then had the effrontery to say that it had been a pleasure working with a businesswoman like her , and if there was anything else he could help her with , she only had to ask ! |
| 15 | There 's been a show running in London for a while called ‘ Good Rockin' Tonight ’ which is the story — probably a touch glamorised , since he wrote it himself — of Jack Good , the ‘ discoverer ’ of many of the British rock'n'roll legends , including Cliff Richard , Billy Fury and Marty Wilde . |
| 16 | There had always been a trap waiting for him somewhere along the way when Isambard loosed the reins a little , and it would be the same now . |
| 17 | It could have been a bus going through Peru . |
| 18 | This could have been a vengeance slaying for the killing of Peada forty years before , allegedly by the treachery of his wife , Ealhflaed , the sister of Osthryth ( HE 111 , 21 , 24 ) , but no further details are known . |
| 19 | Rosemary Cargill ( Mrs Raza ) has since 1986 been a journalist writing for a current affairs publication . |
| 20 | This man , chamberlain , sheriff , Lord Mayor of York , member of parliament for the city , er master of the king 's mint , an important man , a local man , come up in the world quite a lot cos his grandfather had just been an apothecary living on the corner of er Grape Lane going up and up and up . |
| 21 | What was thought to have been an alga growing on sandstone rocks in a dry valley of Antarctica , was identified only two years ago by a Smithsonian botanist as a lichen . |