Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 2 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 3 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 4 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 5 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 6 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 7 | These trained workers are preparing the Ark centre , near Oxford for the arrival of youngsters , who 've been victims of sexual abuse . |
| 8 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 9 | Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel . |
| 10 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 11 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 12 | there have been experiments with 30 km/h zones in an attempt to win safety gains inexpensively . |
| 13 | At Flora Road , Witham there have been problems with unauthorised parking by travellers . |
| 14 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 15 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 16 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 17 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 18 | Although there have been innovations in social care provision , which are outside the range of this book to review , there is still a tendency to fit people to services rather than vice versa . |
| 19 | The cliff contains pitchblende veins that have been sources of dissolved uranium . |
| 20 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 21 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 22 | They have worked together and have been friends for some time . |
| 23 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
| 24 | There is no discussion of the label ‘ mental handicap ’ , indeed the authors occasionally resort to using the demeaning shorthand ‘ m. h. people ’ , and nowhere is there any reference to self advocacy , to assertiveness , to shared record keeping and assessment , all of which have been areas of considerable interest recently to people with learning disability and those who work with them ( for example , Williams and Scheutz , 1982 ; Brechin and Swain , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’ |
| 26 | The 1970s and 1980s have been decades of unparalleled growth . |
| 27 | As a result , there have been changes to land-clearance contracts , including the replacement of grasses by leguminous species that provide a better protective cover and enhance the nitrogen content of the soil . |
| 28 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 29 | But there have been warnings against this — both from black parents and from the conservative popular press — and these are helping teachers to re-evaluate multicultural education and to consider much more fully why it is of benefit for all children and should lead to increased achievement and awareness amongst our pupils . |
| 30 | Three modal types can be distinguished : industry-wide , multi-employer bargaining which is external to the firm , as practised in much of Western Europe on wage-related issues ; single enterprise or firm bargaining , as typically found in the USA and Japan ; and economy-wide systems between trade union and employer central confederations which have been characteristic of several countries , including Norway , Sweden , Denmark and , at times , the Netherlands . |