Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 2 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 3 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 4 | Right , now , the next item is the press and we have a press officer , yeah , like to , perhaps say what 's been happening a little bit and , and you know talk about the next time . |
| 5 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 6 | ‘ Thessy says he 's been offered a lot of money for a charter ? ’ |
| 7 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 8 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 9 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 10 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 11 | I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left . |
| 12 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |
| 13 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 14 | If yer really want ter know I 've been courtin' a widow for some time an' we 're thinkin' of settlin' down tergether , ’ he replied . |
| 15 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 16 | We know we have been reading a novel but nevertheless we can believe that what the author has told us is true . |
| 17 | I know they 've been pulling a lot out |
| 18 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 19 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 20 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 21 | Suppose they had been having an affair , and she 'd dropped him ? ’ |
| 22 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 23 | Let's just consider the political problem though you have still got a problem selling it to a lot of MP s , if they 're listening to this interview and they are concluding , maybe rightly , maybe wrongly , that actually things are n't changing very much , and they may think they 've been sold a pup with these amendments , indeed I hear that some of them have had to be bought off , well , is it true that one of them was sent off to Peru on an on an election er supervision mission in order that he might not be around when the bill came up . |
| 24 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 25 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 26 | When the cameras had long since departed , I was left to carry the can and answer any angry participants who felt they had been given a raw deal . |
| 27 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 28 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 29 | I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds . |
| 30 | Since the party has not been legally registered it has been leading an underground existence . |