Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
| 2 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 3 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 4 | I 've , I 've just been dealing with that in a booklet . |
| 5 | I mean we 've just been to look at some others and upstairs and downstairs . |
| 6 | They 've already been walking for several weeks , many carrying their possessions in their school bags . |
| 7 | ‘ Not in our set , at all events — for we 've not been asked to any ! ’ |
| 8 | Indicate erm tt what the percentage was , because we 've always been sitting round this table patting ourselves on the back , saying that er |
| 9 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 11 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 12 | It was a marvellous victory even Parsons , who had stopped all his previous opponents in the first round , admitted : ‘ I 've never been hit like that in my life . ’ |
| 13 | I 've never been treated like this before . ’ |
| 14 | I 've never been rogered like that before . |
| 15 | I 've never been used to that . |
| 16 | And although we often hear about different jobs being of different sorts of status , they 're on a ladder of status , its for unemployed people the situation is very often as if you 've actually been kicked off this ladder and this is what people say when they describe being unemployed as being on the scrap heap and so on , it 's as if you 've been expelled from this particular world where erm people respect you for having a job and know that you 're contributing . |
| 17 | Again , according to self reports from people who 've actually been abused in this way . |
| 18 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 19 | China and Taiwan claimed to have ended the trade in rhino and tiger products earlier this year , but stockpiles have since been found in both countries . |
| 20 | However , thanks to the efforts of Fred , Bob and a host of well-wishers , they have since been equipped with all the basics they need to start rebuilding the civilised kind of lifestyle they are obviously used to . |
| 21 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
| 22 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 23 | As for ‘ le piston ’ , it is true that three senators have been accused of fraud , bribery and tax evasion in the past three years , but they have all been cleared of these charges by other senators . |
| 24 | He has had his critics down the years — too awkward , no ball skills , too dirty — complaints which have all been banished in these last two seasons . |
| 25 | Her courtiers have all been informed of this decision and have acted accordingly . |
| 26 | To protect privacy , phone numbers have only been included for those governing bodies which have an office . |
| 27 | Orders for payment by the plaintiffs of costs to be taxed on the standard basis have already been made in this action . |
| 28 | The frequency with which references to rural housing have already been made in this chapter reflects the extent to which the housing market acts as an intermediary between the economic changes in agriculture , described earlier in this book , and the kind of social life which is now to be found in the English countryside . |
| 29 | As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States . |
| 30 | In all , of the 350 commitments in the original White Paper , more than 200 have already been fulfilled in this first year alone and significant progress has been made with the remainder . |