Example sentences of "[pers pn] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a lot of them been closed since then . |
| 2 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 3 | But will I been seen as a museum piece by some ? |
| 4 | ‘ Not only have I been separated from my wife for the past five years — but in all that time I 've only once managed to make love to her . |
| 5 | Had I been sent for much earlier I would have tried to turn the baby — but now … it 's too late . |
| 6 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 7 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 8 | This one er what 's , what 's going on , he said well what I been called for |
| 9 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 10 | Had I been born in the Middle Ages , I knew that I would have been one of those retainers who stayed inside the castle and embroidered whilst the knights went off to slaughter the French . |
| 11 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 12 | This is where I been going to . |
| 13 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 14 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 15 | Had I been infected by my owl ? |
| 16 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 17 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 18 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 19 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 20 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 21 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 22 | What had she been watching for ? |
| 23 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 24 | Had n't she been lost to him before even he had seen her . |
| 25 | Has she been bleeding for a two week period ? |
| 26 | The birthday party was of a kind which Cecilia would have wondered at , had she been invited to it , for although a few of Bienvida 's classmates were present in its early stages , by seven it had become a celebration for the grown-ups . |
| 27 | Why , having found herself remarkably unmoved by her succession of boyfriends to date , even Jeremy 's cunning ploys and reasoned arguments , and having reached the not inconsiderable age of twenty-four , had she been consumed with that burning hunger last night ? |
| 28 | What on earth had she been thinking of ? |
| 29 | What had she been thinking of ? |
| 30 | Has she been employed by you for at least 26 weeks into the QW ? |