Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 32 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 33 | My local bank manager said that means she 'd been renting a deposit box . |
| 34 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |
| 35 | ‘ I do n't think this man was a cousin at all , indeed , I think you 've been harbouring a criminal from jail . ’ |
| 36 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
| 37 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |
| 38 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 39 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 40 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 41 | But er she said she 'd been feeling a bit rough recently . |
| 42 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 43 | No she said she 's been to have a look at , it 's Glenys I do n't , no not Glenys |
| 44 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 45 | Labour frontbenchers said they had been shown a note written by Sir Terence Heiser , Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment , to Nicholas Ridley , the then Secretary of State . |
| 46 | Mr Major said he had been given a report on the particular material that was on show in a Commons committee room . |
| 47 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 48 | In these marriages , work becomes what has been called an ‘ acceptable mistress ’ . |
| 49 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |