Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One good turn deserves another , you know , and we 've been friends long enough to act neighbourly , have n't we , Albert ? ’ |
| 2 | And they 've been friends long enough to take each other for granted , turn up when they feel like it , and shut up when they 're busy . |
| 3 | Odd — I 've never dreamt about Cal , even though we 've been friends ever since we sat next to each other the first day I walked into that school . |
| 4 | with old age , he wants to go for a walk you 've been walkies today ? |
| 5 | You 've been walkies today darling ah , you 've been a little walkies today oh , oh , oh , oh |
| 6 | There 've been demands today for the names of alleged rape victims to be published if the accused is acquitted . |
| 7 | There 'll have to have a ruddy cut down , over this staff over this community charge , there 've been trouble here next . |
| 8 | Assuming the Daventry nuns have been subject only to the same controls being applied to all other British egg producers , the protest by the United Kingdom Egg Producers ' Association ( Ukepra ) , the only organisation within the UK egg industry not represented among BEIC members , is potentially damaging both to egg consumers and to egg producers . |
| 9 | As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time . |
| 10 | But from time to time there have been cases where ministers , or more often officials , decide that listing is undesirable for what are , frankly , purely political grounds . |
| 11 | There h have been cases where the person 's back muscles have pulled up so tight that their they 've formed an arch . |
| 12 | In other parts of the world there have been cases where it was desired to combine a system of local independent governments with a unifying central administration which would provide strength especially for foreign affairs and defence . |
| 13 | There have been cases where matters of considerable public interest have been discussed after the press have been ordered to leave the court . |
| 14 | There have been cases where the Attorney has refused to act even after judges have called for prosecution . |
| 15 | Apparently there have been cases here but Horizon was not forthcoming on these and , apparently , the DHSS is not forthcoming either . |
| 16 | The hon. and learned Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) , whom I am pleased to call my hon. and learned Friend , and I entered the House on the same day , and we have been friends ever since . |
| 17 | There have been Dylanologists almost as long as there has been a Dylan for them to write about . |
| 18 | ‘ There have been eagles there since the far-off days when only the sound of the sea and the call of the curlew broke the peace , before men walked the earth . |
| 19 | I have known gardens where the roses never had a moment 's fungicidal attention and did n't know what mildew was , and there have been others where the roses received every care and attention , and each year the place looked like a flour mill . |
| 20 | Most of the warlords whose campaigns of destruction have shaken the world and threatened the destruction of the realms of Men have been Orcs rather than Goblins . |
| 21 | There have been improvements here and there in the East European countries , but generally speaking they distribute sulphur dioxide to their own fields and cities and to the countries downwind of them as liberally as they ever did . |
| 22 | In the evening I went out to a club , stayed up all night , was late for work the next morning , got sacked and ever since then the rest of the staff have been kind enough to pretend that I 'm still one of them . |
| 23 | In past years you have been kind enough to allow a skip to be sited on the Mill Yard for the collection of large items of household rubbish . |
| 24 | It may evoke nostalgia now , or appear quaintly naïve , but there have been periods when crime and disorder seemed soluble , if not yet totally vanished , problems . |
| 25 | ‘ I have never been physically assaulted by a client but there have been circumstances when I 've thought I should be a bit careful . |
| 26 | There have been instances recently where vast commercial organisations and even governments have been compelled to rethink their policies and their methods because a sufficient number of individual supermarket shoppers have decided to demonstrate the strength of their feelings by boycotting a particular item . |
| 27 | There have been instances recently of anti-porn campaigners over-gilding the lily . |
| 28 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 29 | While it is true that many of the great names of the past have been theists rather than atheists , their orientation has often been unorthodox when judged against the norms of their day . |
| 30 | But there have been errors too , with Pilkington investing in foreign glass capacity during the 1980s , at the peak of a cycle which soon slumped , leaving the St Helens based group with over capacity just as the down turn arrived . |