Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 2 | The battalion , which had operated in Namibia and Angola , was composed largely of Angolan rebels who had fought in the Angolan civil war , and also a number of white mercenaries ; its members had since been given South African citizenship . |
| 3 | These have been given UK legislative effect in the 1985 and 1989 Companies Acts . |
| 4 | The LDC category had first been given prominence nine years earlier , by the September 1981 UN Conference on Least Developed Countries in Paris [ see p. 31352 ] , when the UN had drawn up its list of ( then 31 ) LDCs , but little had been achieved in implementing a Substantial New Programme of Action adopted by that meeting . |
| 5 | Before their attack 303 ( 20% ) patients had been prescribed step 3 medication ; 281 ( 93% ) remained at step 3 or lower after the attack and 23 ( 7% ) had their maintenance treatment stepped up . |
| 6 | Lamb 's QC had told the appeal he felt harshly treated when Surrey , whose bowlers had actually been caught ball-tampering three times , had only been handed a £1,000 suspended fine . |
| 7 | Must have been built m Georgian times . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been writing cheques all weekend on a closed account , ’ Vicky says . |
| 9 | Methods of operation of the Awe barrage since passing into private ownership have again been causing controversy this winter . |
| 10 | ‘ He has been scoring goals all season and will be a big loss to the side . |
| 11 | One of them could be Swindon 's own Duncan Shearer , who 's been scoring goals this season as though they were going out of fashion . |
| 12 | They were n't even genuine improvisations : he 'd been scribbling verses all day . |
| 13 | That statement on Monday about ongoing negotiations with Microsoft Corp , intended to arrest a long slide in the share price of Micro Focus Plc ( CI No 2,143 ) failed to prevent the shares shedding another 78 pence in Monday trading , leaving them at 2,110 pence , a far cry from the £30 they touched on February 15 : acceleration of the trend towards downsizing should if anything bring increased business to the company for its Cobol products over the next two or three years , and the signs are that as usual , the market has been overdoing things both ways — the shares were probably too high at £30 but are probably close to a bargain at £20 . |
| 14 | Coun Edward Turner , of Middlesbrough , who had been Meet President two years earlier , had the idea of raising £1,000 to equip the voluntary training corps — the home guard of the First World War . |
| 15 | They 'd both been riding clouds that morning , now this . |
| 16 | I 've mentioned briefly there is um er , let me see , it 's , women who 've been abused show more need for power than a comparable group of unabused women . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 18 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 19 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 20 | I 've been doing skyscapes all day . |
| 21 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 22 | Ann has been attending tree healing sessions for several months now . |
| 23 | ‘ Look , Ben , we 've been questioning Leslie all morning and he wo n't say a dicky bird , but we think he knows who done it . ’ |
| 24 | Prof I. R. Falconer , CChem , FRSC , has been appointed deputy vice chancellor of the University of Adelaide , Australia . |
| 25 | Keating had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister after the 1990 election in preparation for this transition . |
| 26 | Ian Fleming ( 39 ) FCA , has been appointed Group financial controller . |
| 27 | His speech alludes also to the scandals over corruption in political life , particularly where building contracts are concerned , which have been rocking Italy this year . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 29 | I 've been drinking vodkas all night . |
| 30 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |