Example sentences of "[that] [pron] have been [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 2 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 3 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 4 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 5 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 6 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 7 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 8 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 9 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 10 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 11 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 12 | ‘ I see you are determined to prove your assertion that I have been wasting my time . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you suggesting , sir , that I have been shirking my duties ? |
| 14 | That I have been seducing his daughter ? |
| 15 | ‘ … that I have been neglecting your education . |
| 16 | Dyson remembered , at the sight of her silently writing , that she had been nagging him . |
| 17 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 18 | She was adamant that she had been wearing her G-string at the time — round her ankle . |
| 19 | She was quite attractive except for a very nasty skin condition , her face and arms were covered with a large number of pustules and it was obvious that she had been scratching them ; the scratch-marks were bleeding slightly . |
| 20 | Suddenly conscious that she had been holding her breath , Katherine pulled the door closed and then leaned back against the wall , aware of the pounding of her heart . |
| 21 | She now set out to please my mother , not by pretence that she had been spending her time worthily , but in shared reminiscence . |
| 22 | She was dimly aware that she had been treating her friends badly . |
| 23 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 24 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 25 | It would be bad psychology to tell Lou that she had been shown them by the police . |
| 26 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 27 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 28 | ‘ You would n't believe how sexy that skirt is blowing around like that , ’ Mandy said michievously , now that she 'd been granted her pardon . |
| 29 | When it emerges that she has been doing her voluntary work in York for just six years , her enormous commitment becomes clear . |
| 30 | And it is important , for an understanding of Janey 's changing attitude to the boys , to know that she has been told their story . |