Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’ |
| 2 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 3 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 4 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 5 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 6 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 7 | ‘ Mary says you have been helping to feed the sheep . ’ |
| 8 | Mrs Draper says they 've been trying to get a larger home for years . |
| 9 | In fact , I have no reason to think that Wilson wrote this or any other letter protesting against the establishment of a wide-ranging inquiry such as Denning believed he had been instructed to conduct . |
| 10 | If anyone feels the property 's theirs , we 'd expect it to have been reported stolen . |
| 11 | Denis Smith says he 's been trying to get players since he came but has to sell first and there have been no bids for any of the players . |
| 12 | MICHELLE Pfeiffer 's boyfriend Fisher Stevens says he has been left shattered by the break-up of their three-year relationship . |
| 13 | The company says it 's been forced to shut the factories because of competition from abroad where wages are much lower . |
| 14 | Having recently re-read my own , I have come to the conclusion that diaries furnish the perfect vehicle for self-deception and self-enhancement , provided that , in later years , the reader/writer is incapable of reading between the lines or unable to remember what has been left unsaid . |
| 15 | It is possible to see who has been asked to assess a DC using option 2.8.2 , View DC Assessors and view their assessments using option 2.8.3 , View DC Assessments . |
| 16 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 17 | You can see who has been asked to vote using option 2.8.2 , and view their assessments using option 2.8.3 . |
| 18 | You can see who has been asked to vote on a DC using option 2.8.2 , and view their assessments using option 2.8.3 . |
| 19 | Yet for as long as she could remember she 'd been instructed to do so . |
| 20 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 21 | Joan received permission and active encouragement to attempt what she claimed she had been sent to carry out . |
| 22 | One , Yvonne Morgan , said anglers on the riverbank were an invasion of her privacy and claimed she had been subjected to abuse and foul language . |
| 23 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |
| 24 | Do you realize we 've been trying to get ready for twenty minutes ? |
| 25 | Their bodies were contorted and you could see they had been trying to protect their faces with their hands . ’ |
| 26 | Nearly all interviewees claimed they had been forced to cut down on food and fuel and many reported ill health . |
| 27 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 28 | A coastguard claimed he had been ordered to look out for ‘ charred bodies ’ in the water . |
| 29 | I was told he 'd been spotted playing the fruit machines at lunch-time . |
| 30 | When he arrived he had been told to wait , and he had been waiting ever since . |