Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 2 | They say she 'd been depressed in recent days |
| 3 | ‘ You say you have been free of pain for nearly two years ? ’ he said , when he had finished . |
| 4 | Sources close to the investigation suggest it has been dormant for some months and that it produced no conclusions one way or the other . |
| 5 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |
| 6 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 7 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 8 | It has been our purpose here to indicate what has been successful in the past , and the strong technical basis which underpins success . |
| 9 | The directors , who met weekly , acted as a house committee , and the minutes of their meetings show them to have been diligent in pursuing the objectives set out in the preamble to the Act of Parliament which had brought them into existence . |
| 10 | It says I 've been good at the doctor today . |
| 11 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 12 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 13 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 14 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 15 | Matt said , ‘ Silas says you 've been busy in the office . ’ |
| 16 | Labour MP Terry Lewis , who sponsored the Bill , says it 's been successful in New South Wales , Australia , where alcohol related accidents have dropped by a third . |
| 17 | Severn Trent says it 's been aware of the problem , but the money was never available to carry out the upgrading . |
| 18 | Teachers who claim to have been highly involved also claim to have used a wider variety of methods and feel more competent to conduct the review , believing it to have been more of a whole-school effort , more thorough and more useful in producing proposals for change . |
| 19 | Cause he had been used to me lookin' after him doon at my mother 's hoose … |
| 20 | Earlier , Det Sgt John Clark had said he had been involved in meetings with other police forces all over the country after a number of raids on TSB branches in which cash dispensers were forced open using oxy-acetylene equipment . |
| 21 | Now that it was happening it seemed it had been inevitable from the start . |
| 22 | About twenty years after the sack of Aurae Phiala , Honorius finally issued an edict that recognised what had been true for nearly a century . |
| 23 | on their own back , she did n't ask for it and June ai n't worked since Christmas , so er , I says I know what it 's like with my sister and I mean she 's been right in it ai n't she ? |
| 24 | But she admitted she has been thrilled at the response the records bring and the millions of fan letters she has been sent over the years . |
| 25 | MIKE HOOPER could earn a shock recall tomorrow for a match which his manager describes as ‘ potentially the most exciting European tie I 've been involved in . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Given the state of the teams , this is potentially the most exciting European tie I 've been involved in . |
| 27 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 28 | During the trial the court had heard from a succession of alleged victims , all now adults , who claimed they had been ill-treated by the Hanbys . |
| 29 | Mr Bérégovoy's's friends claim he had been horrified by accusations of impropriety in accepting an interest-free loan of FFr1m ( $190,000 ) from a shady business friend , who was later charged with insider trading . |
| 30 | I would of thought it had been easier to erm to put down the name of |