Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 2 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 3 | At Usher she had been top dog . |
| 4 | I expect she 's been bored lately . ’ |
| 5 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 6 | They say she 's been able to transplant a gorilla 's brain into a human body , or maybe a human brain into a gorilla 's body . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 8 | Touche Ross , the receivers for Scarborough 's troubled Royal Hotel , say there has been keen interest from potential buyers and negotiations should start soon . |
| 9 | ‘ Now they say there has been secret dumping of waste from the submarines and nuclear icebreakers . |
| 10 | Turn your back they 're talking to you say they 've been nasty and then they come back and talk to you . |
| 11 | They say they have been innocent victims in a crime for which the law says they must also be punished . |
| 12 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 13 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 14 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 15 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 16 | I find this very difficult to erm , to relate , to relate hard work to the women portraying in , in this , we 've got the postcard of that one , erm it must of been hard work and very tedious , but I think every now and then the moment breaks away and shines through at the back , and I think people like , like Gaugin erm captures those moments and then releases them on the canvass , and I hope that erm by , I hope I 've been able to show you how I use art as a voice erm and a friend as my own work , even though we 've maybe had to do such a sort of hand fist way , hand fisted way , erm , but , I , I 've recently started to re-visit old favourite of paintings and I found that the story they tell sometimes has changed dramatically , maybe sometimes when your very little that , that , you know , sometimes dramatically as well , erm , but I , mostly , most importantly its , its still , I still find them , all of them compelling and challenging and , and something to stride for in my own work , erm , er only time will tell so I 'll finish with the , the last poem which is erm comes from the postcard what 's going round which is harvest , its called Patterns In The Grass , Wheat cut and falls , making lion head patterns in the grass , sickle shaped women bend and bow as a naive dressed as a dog steals the evening meal . |
| 17 | Well I hope you 've been able to pick up a bit of something but I 'm not very good at it myself cos old days and old times . |
| 18 | I hope you have been able to develop and promote your ideas with other interested parties since then , but I share your sense of frustration at the slow progress and limited imagination being displayed . |
| 19 | Photographs of that time show him to have been clean shaven and crisply dressed . |
| 20 | But since the Vietnamese Zone of Peace and Stability has won little support they have been reluctant to reject out of hand the ZOPFAN proposal if this eventually could provide the basis of a long-term settlement of the disputes between Indo-China and the ASEAN states and encourage a military disengagement of the ASEAN states from the West . |
| 21 | First and foremost , I hope they have been interesting — more than that , fascinating — for if language analysis fails to fascinate us , something is seriously rotten in the state of Denmark — and I learned that lesson from a Dane , Otto Jespersen , whose papers on language never failed to fascinate . |
| 22 | I 've got to go listen it 's been lovely t talk to talk talking to you if you could pop in with a bottle of I wanted to try the new Beaujo If anybody 's got it and they come over , just ring the ring the door bell . |
| 23 | Cause he had been used to me lookin' after him doon at my mother 's hoose … |
| 24 | on their own back , she did n't ask for it and June ai n't worked since Christmas , so er , I says I know what it 's like with my sister and I mean she 's been right in it ai n't she ? |
| 25 | MIKE HOOPER could earn a shock recall tomorrow for a match which his manager describes as ‘ potentially the most exciting European tie I 've been involved in . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Given the state of the teams , this is potentially the most exciting European tie I 've been involved in . |
| 27 | I consider you to have been two-faced and quite deceitful . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Through the Business Link we have been able to find a supplier which is literally 500 years down the road from us . ’ |
| 29 | I did n't I mean I know I 've been married to him for thir twenty five year but did n't know her all that . |
| 30 | United 's Darren Ferguson is likely to give way for Robson 's return , but manager Alex Ferguson softened the blow for his son when he said : ‘ The players know I 've been loyal to them because they have fought hard with little reward . |