Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 2 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 3 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 4 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 6 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 7 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 8 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 9 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 10 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 11 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 12 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 13 | The Eighty-ninth Law of Dybbukry : Never , ever let your subject know you 've been thrown off balance . |
| 14 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 15 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 16 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 17 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 18 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 19 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 20 | But hospital staff say they 've been vindicated by the inquest verdict . |
| 21 | Workers at a Grand Prix racing team which is facing receivership , say they 've been betrayed by their management . |
| 22 | RSPCA staff say they have been inundated with inquiries about the dogs at Sadberge kennels following an article in The Northern Echo . |
| 23 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 24 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 25 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 26 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 27 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 28 | Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit . |
| 29 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 30 | Above all we must disregard any traditional idea and never , never , be put off by statements of ‘ practical men ’ who say it has been tried before or it will never work ; these two feeble and slavish statements have destroyed countless ideas and they have been the rocks against which many brilliant minds have foundered . |