Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 3 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 4 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 5 | This is not to say that the Government has not also been pursuing other policies , such as the wider spread of home ownership , that have been beneficial to many working-class people , but the approach has been implemented in a way that has isolated the underclass still further . |
| 6 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 7 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 8 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 9 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 10 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 11 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 12 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 13 | It is understood Special Branch detectives have been charting planned attacks on unionists and advising the politicians on measures to protect their lives and members of their families . |
| 14 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 15 | In answer to charge 4 that he had treated Royan without taking a proper history or examination or consulting his general practitioner , Dr Mumby said he took the clinical history in the form of a questionnaire which patients filled out in advance but he rarely examined patients because they had usually been examined many times elsewhere and because taking a history by questionnaire was an established technique of clinical ecology . |
| 16 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 17 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 18 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 19 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 20 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 22 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 23 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 24 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 25 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 26 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 27 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 28 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 29 | THE eagerly-awaited reappearance of Champion hurdler Royal Gait has been delayed 24 hours until this afternoon due to the abandonment of yesterday 's meeting at Leopardstown . |
| 30 | Race officials claim the start of the run had been delayed 20 minutes to avoid the train but the race was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule . |