Example sentences of "[been] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 2 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 3 | Its Committee for Art and Design , for most of that period under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , the Director of Leicester Polytechnic , has been pursuing the Council 's policy of achieving a balance between the main studies , on the one hand , and the history of art and design and complementary studies on the other . |
| 4 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 5 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 6 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 7 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
| 10 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
| 11 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 12 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
| 13 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 14 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been to see the family ; I 've kept away until now … |
| 16 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 17 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
| 19 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 20 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 21 | Two million people have been to see the film Jurassic Park since it was released in British cinemas just five days ago . |
| 22 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 23 | It is also likely that my friend will , at some point , have been to see the SUSA Welfare Officer and obtained help with a late grant , or received advice on one of a whole host of student problems from harassment to housing . |
| 24 | I 've been to see the magician said Tim . |
| 25 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 26 | oh , he said , that 'd be very interesting and he 'd just been to see the and I said how is she ? |
| 27 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 28 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 29 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 30 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |