Example sentences of "'ve been [vb pp] [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 | They 'd be secondhand shoes because they 've been worn for three days . |
| 3 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 4 | This month I 've been inundated with more questions about dog foods , and feeding in general . |
| 5 | I 've been tied to older people , my father … riveted to him . |
| 6 | They 've been formed from separate corps looking after Transport , Ordnance , Supplies , Catering and Military Mail . |
| 7 | We 've not given anything away and if we 've been affected by other pressures — England , injuries and the like — then okay . |
| 8 | They 've been trained from early age have n't they ? |
| 9 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 10 | In a quiet , gentle , but troubled voice , Cardiff said , ‘ You 've been gone for twenty-six years , Barbara . ’ |
| 11 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | they 've been done for many years |
| 14 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 15 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 16 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 17 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |
| 18 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 22 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 23 | The Hunt Saboteurs have admitted they 've been infiltrated by neo-Nazi groups . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 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 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 29 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 30 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |