Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] [been] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would remind you both , ’ said the abbot gently , ‘ that if she has been all this while consulting her own wishes , and imposing them upon us mortals , Saint Winifred is again on her own altar in our church . |
| 2 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 3 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , she 's been that in her time too . ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think , probably she has n't really thought it , she 's , she 's been more concerned with her own self but she 's . |
| 6 | He has been such a good , kind husband . ’ |
| 7 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 8 | And this is strange because he has been all his working life that representative of law and order , a dedicated policeman . |
| 9 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 10 | ‘ It has been such a long time ! |
| 11 | It has been such a success within the company over recent months that JT Design Build are now making it available throughout the construction industry and to the industry 's clients . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ It has been such a long time coming I had almost given up hope . |
| 13 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 14 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 15 | However , the British people must be asking where it has been all these years . |
| 16 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 17 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 18 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 19 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 20 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 21 | It has been more of a blessing than a curse . |
| 22 | It has been another successful season for the two golf clubs operating within Stoddard . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't suppose it 's been much help . ’ |
| 24 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 25 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 26 | It 's been that way ever since I can remember . |
| 27 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 28 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been such a comfort talking to you , Alison . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been such a shock . |