Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 2 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 3 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 4 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 5 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
| 6 | Thus 266 of 961 Housing Association houses have been completed since that date , 141 of 1201 local authority dwellings and 737 of 4395 private dwellings . |
| 7 | All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars . |
| 8 | From the vendors ' viewpoint , it will be important tactically to ensure that the preferred party is selected once all potential deal breaking points have been cleared with that party . |
| 9 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 10 | I happen to believe that the fears that have been voiced on that account are exaggerated . |
| 11 | He is perfectly right that in recent years we have been eating into that principle , but if we continue to do so , the principle will go , and that is the civil liberties issue which the system of justice has always been anxious to maintain . |
| 12 | The different sorts of interpretation of teaching quality this sort of framework suggests can be illustrated by looking at explanations for the development and persistence of transmission teaching that have been presented within that framework . |
| 13 | These cover a large range of things , like the patient 's age , the patient 's sex , where the pain is , where it started , how quickly it came on , and so on and so forth , and essentially within the computer has a large table , and this table contains , how shall I put it , the frequency with which this particular symptom was associated with a particular disease over the last few hundred patients that have been seen at that hospital . |
| 14 | The current excavations are the first time that the theatre 's remains have been seen since that destruction . |
| 15 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 16 | It is usually easier , however , to turn to an early volume of the Victoria County History of England ( in counties which have been covered by that enterprise ) , where all the nineteenth-century data are listed in tabular form . |
| 17 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 18 | Allegations of many kinds have been made about that matter and certain aspects of the command economy . |
| 19 | And I 'd like to erm try and get you all to see what you can tell by simply observing the building , and I 'd like to concentrate if we may on the central part of the building , because there are a number of changes that have been made to that building erm which tell a story . |
| 20 | Decided to bid to operate the Scheme providing there was a stronger training element and moves have been made in that direction . |
| 21 | That regeneration project is a flea on a dog 's back into the jobs that have been lost in that area at the moment . |
| 22 | Present day quantitative studies in Lurgan , a small country town south-west of Belfast in the Lagan Valley , confirm the existence of an /a/ system with little backing ( front vowels have been noted in that area even before [ r ] and finally ) , which is quite similar to Patterson 's ( 1860 ) account of Belfast in this respect ( Pitts , 1982 ) . |
| 23 | What goods have been bought during that month |
| 24 | Since the beginning of 1990 , a total of 13 exploration and four appraisal wells have been drilled in that part of the United Kingdom sector of the Irish sea generally known as the Manx basin . |
| 25 | All subsequent races have been held over that distance with minor fluctuations . |
| 26 | Dr Dixon said , ‘ With up to 20 years from infection to illness , we just have to ask how many of our congregation have been added during that time ? |
| 27 | She added : ‘ My heart absolutely bleeds for those people of my age who have been taken in that collapse and are now suffering hardship . |
| 28 | I might just add that what we are deeply disturbed by , is that as the fighting continues in Cambodia with Phol Pot trying once again to get into control , already a hundred and fifty thousand people have been displaced by that fighting and that er the number of amputees has reached something like a thousand a month which is twice last year 's figure . |
| 29 | They will not accept it as true that they murdered God , whereas we admit it and have been cleansed of that guilt . |
| 30 | Well John Hume 's meetings with Gerry Addams have been overshadowed by that meeting between the prime ministers of Great Britain and the Irish Republic , overshadowed and overtaken , according to Mr Major , I talked about that to John Hume a little earlier this morning , but I began by asking for his reaction to the latest murders . |