Example sentences of "have been [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition is cut-throat and it seems some of the designers have been taking some dodgy tabs ( or suffering from over-worked stress syndrome ) , as the high-top becomes more and more ridiculous . |
| 2 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 3 | They say it is too soon to say if either will produce any results , but Chief Inspector Steve Cross of Cheshire 's Serious Crime Squad confirmed : ‘ We have been given some new names which we are following up at the moment . |
| 4 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 5 | Whilst librarians have been saved some paperwork , statistics of use for individual theses will now be impossible to obtain from BLDSC , and the present type of research methodology will no longer be practicable . |
| 6 | Where one-off items have been selected some stores will reserve them for you , but you may have to buy them yourself if they are n't chosen . |
| 7 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 8 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 9 | British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures . |
| 10 | I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it . |
| 11 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 12 | Alexei Pavlov , a marketing manager with the Ukraina Bank and Slava Tkatchenko , head of international payments at Gradobank , have been spending some time at Girobank to see how UK banks operate . |
| 13 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 14 | Recently East Hampshire District Council have been making some preliminary interviews of local applicants . |
| 15 | Television viewers have been revolted by evidence that the Croats , too , have been doing some ‘ cleansing ’ in Bosnia . |
| 16 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 17 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 18 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 19 | The twelve select committees established by the Commons in December 1979 seem to have attracted enough criticism from the executive to suggest that they have been asking some pertinent questions , but their overall impact on policy has so far been slight . |
| 20 | It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) . |
| 21 | GREGGS , a bakery chain with 95 branches across the region , have been attempting some similarly sweet toothed psephology . |