Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will also completely cover up imperfections , have good sound and heat insulation properties and , if they 've been treated with protective spray , will last for years and years — long after paint has become chipped and discoloured , and paper faded . |
| 2 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 3 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 5 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 6 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 7 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 8 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 9 | They 've been formed from separate corps looking after Transport , Ordnance , Supplies , Catering and Military Mail . |
| 10 | We 've not given anything away and if we 've been affected by other pressures — England , injuries and the like — then okay . |
| 11 | They 've been trained from early age have n't they ? |
| 12 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 13 | They 've been developed after considerable consumer research and will evaluate new products and new service ideas which if found acceptable will be taken up by the M F I chain . |
| 14 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 15 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |
| 16 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 17 | Does it make them any weaker because they 've been adopted by young women who dislike the feminist label or by the ‘ I 'm not a feminist but ’ brigade ? |
| 18 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 19 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |
| 20 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 21 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 22 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 23 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |
| 24 | The Hunt Saboteurs have admitted they 've been infiltrated by neo-Nazi groups . |
| 25 | Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast . |
| 26 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's been evidence of naïvety among NHS managers who 've been seduced by fashionable trends . ’ |
| 28 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 29 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 30 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |