Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 2 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 3 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 4 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 5 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 6 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 7 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 8 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 9 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 10 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 11 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 12 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 13 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 14 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 15 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 16 | Police say someone has been helping with inquiries and an inquest will be opened into the young man 's death tomorrow . |
| 17 | In the meantime the first of the warbird collection was two-seater Fury T.20S G–BCOW which had been bought from Doug Arnold at Blackbushe in 1976 and had previously been used in West Germany on contract to the Luftwaffe as a target tug . |
| 18 | The Eighty-ninth Law of Dybbukry : Never , ever let your subject know you 've been thrown off balance . |
| 19 | But it explained the numbers that did n't add up — though not why Brigitte Schickert was shown on her certificate as having died in Dornhausen when everybody seemed to know she had been taken to hospital . |
| 20 | The papers say there has been shooting in the centre of Tripoli far to the north . |
| 21 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 22 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 23 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 24 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 25 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 26 | But hospital staff say they 've been vindicated by the inquest verdict . |
| 27 | Workers at a Grand Prix racing team which is facing receivership , say they 've been betrayed by their management . |
| 28 | RSPCA staff say they have been inundated with inquiries about the dogs at Sadberge kennels following an article in The Northern Echo . |
| 29 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 30 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |