Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know Alan from the England set-up , and everyone has always been impressed with his work . ’ |
| 2 | Life for me has never been dull around you what more could I ask ? |
| 3 | The most fundamental difference to me has always been that the private sector is so much more dynamic — the rate of change is so great . |
| 4 | This for me has always been important . |
| 5 | That to me has always been a fruitless quest . ’ |
| 6 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 7 | Now several alternative notations are available , and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made . |
| 8 | Those leaders have tried to keep their empires isolated from the Darwinian laws of survival , despite the fact that none of the ‘ gods ’ as presented by them has ever been able to set aside the inexorable operation of those laws . |
| 9 | Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated . |
| 10 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 11 | The other tenants say that life for them has never been better . |
| 12 | Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information . |
| 13 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 14 | I know that nothing has ever been proved against the man , but you 've heard the rumours about how he tries to pressurise people . ’ |
| 15 | But do we believe modern scientists , none of whom has actually been inside a whale 's belly ? |
| 16 | No-one has ever been able to explain precisely why the tropical forests and coral reefs contain so many species , but the two habitats do have several obvious features in common . |
| 17 | Studies of many thousands of people have shown that no-one has ever been infected through kissing . |
| 18 | I think perhaps the top clubs like I do n't I 've never been there . |
| 19 | Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised . |
| 20 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 21 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 22 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 23 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 24 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 25 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 26 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 27 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 28 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 29 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 30 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |