Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but I 've been reinstated to twenty three pounds |
| 2 | But I 've been asked by the PM to co-operate with a special operative of the CIA . |
| 3 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 5 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 6 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 7 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 8 | But I 've been promised to Craig for years , I ca n't break my word . ’ |
| 9 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 10 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 11 | but I have been led in my experience to believe that they possess a natural intelligence and character which if properly guided and consistently handled should lead them to play a useful part in the synthesis of tribal life in Kenya … as a factor for stability in political development … |
| 12 | Her family were farmers , but she had been sent by her employer to learn the finer points of cuisine and household management from the master chef and the housekeeper at the Savoy . |
| 13 | Shelley was n't usually violent , but she had been tested beyond what she thought was right . |
| 14 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 15 | Not only had she failed to recapture her budgie , but she had been accused of stealing apples and brought disgrace upon the Pack ! |
| 16 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 17 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |
| 18 | But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in . |
| 19 | Geoffrey is recuperating from er er an operation on his back , and Barbara , although not here this morning , hopefully may well be here this afternoon , but she 's been incapacitated by a fall which er , broke her leg . |
| 20 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
| 21 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 22 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 23 | The parish has already looked into the possibility of extending the existing church , but we 've been advised by Delyn that such an application would be rejected because of lack of parking facilities . |
| 24 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 25 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 26 | As my hon. Friends the Members for Wyre ( Mr. Mans ) and for Thurrock have said , people expected to be protected by central Government , but we have been told by the Labour party that there will be no limit whatsoever on spending . |
| 27 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 28 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 29 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |
| 30 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |