Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Only in the club 's last two league games have the players shown anything like their best form , although the league cup quarter and semi-finals against Aberdeen and Celtic have been exceptions . |
2 | In desperation she tells Fairfax that she and Tepilit have been lovers . |
3 | The book indicates that duelling and gambling have been co-ordinate activities : both , we may feel , are poised on a knife-edge between accident and intention . |
4 | Paddy Monaghan and Ali have been pals since 1963 … when Paddy , furious that Ali had been stripped of his title for refusing to fight in Vietnam , gathered 22 thousand signatures . |
5 | He and Botham have been friends for 20 years , and Chris says : ‘ He is a walking miracle . |
6 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
7 | Fujitsu and Siemens have been bes ' friends for decades , and Fujitsu already supplies Siemens biggest mainframe CPUs OEM , while Siemens markets Fujitsu VP supercomputers in Europe . |
8 | ‘ Con Gallagher and Una have been lovers for about a year now . ’ |
9 | But the group 's Fifties-style , sweet harmony singing is in complete contrast to their background- the brutal streets of Philadelphia where many of their friends and family have been victims of violence or bloody murder . |