Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 2 | I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ? |
| 3 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 4 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 5 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 6 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 7 | I am by training and profession an historian ; my role has been to collect these documents , to present and elucidate them , to attempt to show their meaning and limitations , according to traditional historical methods . |
| 8 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 9 | One result of my illness has been to change all that : When you are faced with the possibility of an early death , it makes you realize that life is worth living and that there are lots of things you want to do . |
| 10 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 11 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 12 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 13 | My task had been to help these women to realise their own strengths and to speak out for themselves with courage and dignity . |
| 14 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |
| 15 | Prosecutions for offences defined under the Merchant Shipping Acts had almost uniformly failed , and shipowners had escaped altogether from the provisions of the Employers ' Liability Act 1880 in which employers had been made responsible for insuring employees against the risks of their calling . |
| 16 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 17 | Their throats had been slashed open and their bodies stripped naked . |
| 18 | Her hair had been cut shorter than usual round her neck , accentuating the elegant curve of the nape and softening the slight masculinity of her features . |
| 19 | Clare noticed that her hair had been cropped shorter than before , so that it was almost like fur on her head . |
| 20 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 21 | The most dramatic thing about the recent dietary fibre research is that it has , to a degree , altered the basis on which experts have been calculating potential weight loss over the past half century or so … the period during which overweight people have been begging diet doctors and dieticians to help them shed that surplus fat . |
| 22 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 23 | Not for the first time this season their defence had been found wanting and Oldham exploited the weaknesses to the full , owing a special debt to the inspiration and tireless running of Henry and Milligan . |
| 24 | ‘ Did n't you say her handbag had been torn open , the contents gone except for the photo in a zipped pocket ? ’ |
| 25 | The Republic of Colombia won its independence from Spain in 1819 although its borders have been redrawn several times since . |
| 26 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 27 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 28 | However , she points out proudly that her films have been faring better than her rival 's at the box office . |
| 29 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 30 | The wife of one says her husband has been denied proper access to lawyers and medical care . |