Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have been [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talk about ‘ god ’ sometimes here at home , and you have been told at school to sing hymns and say prayers to ‘ god ’ , and you hear ‘ god ’ spoken about on the radio and television , also your friends talk and argue about ‘ god ’ , but nobody at all will tell you who or what ‘ god ’ really is , and this is because ‘ god ’ is only imaginary just as fairies are . |
| 2 | Yes , well you are talking about children 's services , but , I , I think if Mr 's going to talk later to this , if you want , but we are absolutely at the moment , we know that eighty nine percent of work at the child care centre is to do with child protection with to deal with it , and by that I mean abuse , physical and sexual abuse , er , concerns about that and a lot of that of course is , is tied up in procedural ways , and we 're dealing with events almost after the situation has er , got going , er , and of course , with the courts , you know that we 've got duties in relation to the courts , that we , we have to fulfil or else we are the subject of criticism from the er , courts , and we have been rapped at various er , times . |
| 3 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 4 | No I said four four from the letter and it 's been left at that . |
| 5 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 6 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 7 | This represents a large increase in productivity compared with pre-1970 levels but it has been achieved at great cost in terms of environmental degradation and human health . |
| 8 | Only the one chosen background material has been used but it has been presented at various distances and angles . |
| 9 | No large-scale tests have been made to establish the rate of risk but it has been put at 1.5% , or an average of one in 60–70 . |