Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously they 're as hung up as the rest of us . |
| 2 | This could have come about by virtue of the fact that at every stage of evolution the original life force ( whatever it may have been and relegated in this book to the pre-life period ) was always carried by the species at the head of the chain , and this was the species which would ultimately become the human race . |
| 3 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 4 | ‘ Here , mister , would you like to see what you 've been and done to me ? ’ |
| 5 | They 've been on loo while they 've been and done them . |
| 6 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 7 | If this is how her work is to be read , then we are of course back with all the problems of the kairos approach : why has history been what it has been and given what history has been what may be said of God 's intention in relation to women ? |
| 8 | Well , I have been and gone and done it this time . |
| 9 | Now that the Spanish race has been and gone , it is a matter of clearing Mansell 's name and it would seem that the evidence offered gave the court food for thought . |
| 10 | The whole Creation aesthetic seems based in the sad conviction that rock is over , it 's been and gone , and all that 's left is to uphold the legacy through the Dark Ages of Plastic Pop . |
| 11 | A free spirit has been and gone . |
| 12 | The controversial policy of gassing entire badger populations known to be infected with TB has been and gone , and today two lines of research are being followed . |
| 13 | The first anniversaries , birthdays , Christmas and other special events have been and gone and the grieving person has survived these especially difficult days . |
| 14 | Some competitions have been and gone , others altered , some dropped and re-instated , whilst yet others have become inter-linked with other competitions , some with superb prizes but no trophies ! |
| 15 | By 1815 , a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt . |
| 16 | Kom Ombo and Edfu , like the fitness of my charges , have been and gone , and now at Esna a few determined explorers rattle by horse-drawn carriage towards the town centre at 6am . |
| 17 | Bina , you 've been and gone and done it ! ’ |
| 18 | Death had been and gone , but it was still in the air , like static . |
| 19 | He 's been and gone and sold it ! |
| 20 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 21 | It 's really ironic that suddenly people from The Independent are really into it because it 's safe to be behind something that 's been and gone and proved its worth . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's been and gone and smashed Margaret Lacey 's face in ! ’ |
| 23 | By the time you read this , the IBM PC 's 10th birthday will have been and gone . |
| 24 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |
| 25 | By that time , we thought , he must have been and gone again . |
| 26 | They 'd never know that we 'd been and gone . |
| 27 | The doctor had been and gone by the time Maxim reached the little cottage on the hillside above Caswell 's father-in-law 's garage . |
| 28 | By the time of Safdarjung 's death , the Persian Nadir Shah had been and gone , carrying with him the accumulated riches of eight generations of Empire . |
| 29 | Finally , long after her ‘ spot ’ had been and gone , Deborah arrived , hot and flustered having been shunted down the Thames from London Weekend on a boat with a troupe of belly dancers all making last minute adjustments to their costumes , or lack of them . |
| 30 | Now he 'd been and gone and done it . |