Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
| 2 | Four giant cranes have been given a lift ten miles down the River Mersey to start a new life working in the Port of Liverpool . |
| 3 | She was on the very first Dreamflight in 1987 as a leukaemia sufferer and was now back as a helper , having been given the all-clear this year . |
| 4 | Christiani Neilsen and O'Rourke has been given the £60 million contract to build the line 's biggest station at Canary Wharf , creating another 2,000 jobs . |
| 5 | If you have been using a code driven system then it 's likely that you can drive alternative systems directly ; GO Graphics ' Deskset talks to Compugraphic systems , for example . |
| 6 | Inexperience in the heavier , but more powerful Indycars aside , Mansell said he could face problems if Cyclone Roger , which has been lashing the coast this week , brings rain on race day . |
| 7 | For the past two days she had been dreading the proximity this trip would involve , but gradually , as the car wound its way along the narrow mountain roads , she could feel herself beginning to relax . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would have been had the South American dealer not ignored his every letter , fax and telephone call requesting confirmation of delivery date . |
| 9 | Businessman John Foy and his wife Sally have been told the Pounds 250,000 house must go because it flouts planning regulations . |
| 10 | GIANT-KILLERS Featherstone Rovers have been handed a plum Regal Trophy draw at home to high-flying St Helens . |
| 11 | One dealer of the author 's acquaintance would keep telling his clients : " There 's been a lot of buying this morning " when what he really meant was the dealers had been selling the stock all morning . |
| 12 | I 've been considering the problem this afternoon . |
| 13 | The stock market has been expecting an announcement all week . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 15 | I watch Southport , who have been doing the business this season , and I have noticed an increase in our crowd attendances . |
| 16 | Steve Foley has become Colchester 's caretaker-manager for a second time , Jock Wallace having been appointed a director last week — ‘ I will do all in my power to help the club , ’ he said . |
| 17 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 18 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 19 | ‘ She had been making a noise last season and was Hobdayed during the winter . |
| 20 | Bradford Northern .. 8 New Zealand ....... 26 BRADFORD NORTHERN have been making an effort this season , and reasons to be cheerful at Odsal have included cheerleaders , improved results , increased gates , two men in the Great Britain rugby league squad , an Australian at half-back and a Welshman on the wing . |
| 21 | Midlands , West & Wales has been awarded a £1.4 million contract by the Ministry of Education to build a two-storey extension to the Pates Grammar School in Cheltenham . |
| 22 | Wimpey Alawi has been awarded a £2.4 million project by |
| 23 | Northern region has been awarded an £8.4 million contract by Merseyside Improved Houses to build three phases of housing ( subject to funding ) at Brownlow Hill , Liverpool . |
| 24 | I 've been putting a bit more glue on it . |
| 25 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 26 | In a television interview , James Baker , the Secretary of State , said the Panama commander , General Maxwell Thurman , had been sent an order last Tuesday morning , the day of the coup , requiring him to seize General Noriega if there were an opportunity to do so ‘ without risking American life and without open military involvement , then he was free to go ahead ’ . |
| 27 | She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day . |
| 28 | J CALE 's laconic blend of rock , Country and blues has been influencing the way other axemen think for years . |
| 29 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 30 | We studied 20 children with coeliac disease who had been following a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |