Example sentences of "been [verb] [det] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 2 | It seems strange that this phenomenon , so necessary both for social cohesion and for the development of real harmony between ourselves and our horses , has been given less attention than pecking order : a reflection , perhaps , on the observer more than on the observed . |
| 3 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's nothing to do with whether I 'm good , whether I 'm lucky enough to have been given more talent than you , the rest of you … ’ |
| 5 | I was concerned , Dennis has never been given any schedule since he last spoke to erm Arthur which was get as much down as you can boy . |
| 6 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 7 | Over the mince pies and wine we learned that the Bala band had been formed many years before and had faithful musicians and followers . |
| 8 | A dwelling in Scotland that is placed in band D will have been assigned that band because its value at 1 April 1991 is over £45,000 but does not exceed £58,000 . |
| 9 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |
| 10 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 11 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
| 12 | It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced . |
| 13 | Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him . |
| 14 | Mr Andrews believes they have been accepted this year because they are running as a family team . |
| 15 | The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines . |
| 16 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 17 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 18 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 19 | But quiz shows have been getting more viewers than Eldorado . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 21 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 22 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 23 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 24 | ‘ I , myself , have been observing this jet as it gets ready for take-off and there is a definite smell of fuel . ’ |
| 25 | She has been appointed this season after the Wordsworth Trust staged a six-day exhibition in Osaka last year . |
| 26 | Mr Brian Harvey , owner of Skinnergate Cycles , said lorry congestion had been caused most mornings as delivery men jostled to complete their business before the 10.30 deadline . |
| 27 | Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies . |
| 28 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 29 | The world 's highest peak has been scaled many times since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first conquered it in 1953 . |
| 30 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |