Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 2 | But then came the news his immigration application had been delayed a few weeks because he 's a diabetic . |
| 3 | A 230 ton barge has been encountering a few problems on its journey up the River Wye . |
| 4 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 5 | Since then , all the display vats in the undercover sales area have been treated the same way , turning what could easily be run-of-the-mill fish transit into a feast for the inquiring eye . |
| 6 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 7 | London had been given no such attention , but The London Society since 1912 had been undertaking work which was brought together in essays edited by Sir Aston Webb ( 1921 ) . |
| 8 | It would almost certainly have been given the same support by the full House had it not been attached to a Bill to reform obscenity law , with which it had no clear or logical connection . |
| 9 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 10 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 11 | For subjects in an ‘ acquired distinctiveness ’ group , the two stimuli had been given different labels in pre-training ; for those in the ‘ acquired equivalence ’ group the two stimuli used were those that had been given the same label . |
| 12 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 13 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 14 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 16 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 17 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 18 | Richard had only been climbing a few months , but he was as strong as an ox and had no respect for tradition ( he did n't know all the horror stories ) . |
| 19 | However , once printed text has been photocopied a few times , or faxed , or degraded in some other way , the characters can become similarly indistinct . |
| 20 | Each club have been fined the same amount as Arsenal , who were found to be the less culpable party in the mass scuffle with Norwich City on November 4 . |
| 21 | Most of the bigger hotels in Kos have been built a little way out of the old town and the Bohem is about 15 minutes from the far side of Heaven ( the disco ) ! |
| 22 | The cottage , he told Marshall , had been built the same time as the farm . |
| 23 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 24 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 25 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 26 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 27 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 28 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 29 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 30 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |