Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [been] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scored 12 goals in eight pre-season games but has not netted in the Premiership so far and his partnership with David Hirst has been deeply disappointing . |
| 2 | And Mr Wilikins has been very helpful . |
| 3 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 4 | Planted during the last week of September , Connie has been particularly pleased by the wallflowers progress after a generous feed with Vitax 6X fertiliser . |
| 5 | ‘ Your Grace , Master Corbett has been most busy . |
| 6 | Saturday has been deliberately left free so that the ladies can do as they please , either in and around Peebles , or perhaps venture to ‘ Auld Reekie ’ , our beautiful capital city of Edinburgh . |
| 7 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 8 | I am afraid that by taking the extraordinary measure of stapling this report ‘ because some of the contents are so disturbing ’ , Amnesty has again given credence to the belief that recent torture in Kuwait has been more terrible than in any other part of the world , whereas the repugnant patterns of pain-infliction described are all too familiar from Iran , from Myanmar , Amin 's Uganda , a South America , South Africa etc . |
| 9 | Mikhail Gorbachev has been under increasing pressure at home , especially in the Soviet army , to salvage what he can of the old Soviet-Iraqi friendship . |
| 10 | Manfred Ommer has been especially outspoken , even casting doubts on Stuttgart 's championship win . |
| 11 | Northamptonshire has been under Conservative control for the last eight years but it 's still tight . |
| 12 | Unfortunately Whelo has been out injured since the season 's start about breaking a bone in his foot against of all teams Milwall . |
| 13 | Nuala Scarisbrook has been especially critical of the controversial work of Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe on live embryos : |
| 14 | While Faldo has been very successful with David Leadbetter , I am more concerned by the specialist looking after his wrist . |
| 15 | Raskolnikov has been here three years . |
| 16 | PROGRESS in setting up a new retreat centre in Falkland in Fife which was initiated by Church of Scotland deaconess Lynda Wright has been much swifter than anticipated with the result that it will welcome its first guests from the beginning of April . |
| 17 | Mr Wright has been responsibly critical , having served his apprenticeship under John Woodcock , his predecessor , who in his six years ( 1980–86 ) brought to the editorship an authority it had not enjoyed since the great Sidney Pardon . |
| 18 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 19 | Singh had been under intense political pressure to reduce the increase in fertilizer prices . |
| 20 | Chuan had been under considerable pressure to appoint the Democrat Party secretary-general , Maj.-Gen. |
| 21 | Kuwait had been particularly concerned about the plans for an American Rapid Deployment Force . |
| 22 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 23 | Donna had been too small to travel before then . ’ |
| 24 | Muhammad al-Fasi had been publicly critical of the Saudi Arabian Government during the Gulf crisis and its aftermath . |
| 25 | The thought of an immediate confrontation with Jake was not one which Shiona had been particularly relishing . |
| 26 | Emilia had been long sick with pregnancy ; she had lost the child ; and somewhere she was terribly afraid . |
| 27 | As Rachel reached her flat and let herself in she found herself trying to remember whether David had been there that evening when her mother had sent for her . |
| 28 | Well yes , Angie had been very busy and preoccupied with the wedding preparations , naturally , but she had been happy . |
| 29 | Ashton had shouted one last thing at him , but Steven had been too far away , breathing deeply , an expression of triumph on his face , He 'd got away from them . |
| 30 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |