Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
| 2 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 3 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 4 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
| 5 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 6 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 7 | When I arrive somewhere I have been in a previous life , the ground greets me . |
| 8 | Ornithologically nothing has been gained from these changes in habitat on which the Sussex populations of some species largely depend . |
| 9 | Literally nothing has been overlooked ! |
| 10 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
| 11 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 12 | Naturally I had been invited . |
| 13 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’ |
| 15 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 16 | If only I had been less impatient and tried to go last . |
| 17 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 18 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
| 19 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 20 | Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’ |
| 21 | But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’ |
| 22 | But perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ Necromancy , ’ he said , lowering his voice , ‘ Do you know , I never believed in that hoary old tale about necromancy sucking all the goodness and all the warmth from everything , but perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 24 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him , after all ! |
| 25 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
| 26 | ‘ Perhaps I 've been a little obtuse , Fran . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him . ’ |
| 28 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |
| 29 | Perhaps I had been too forward , I thought , taken too much for granted . |
| 30 | Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress . |