Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 2 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 3 | No , I 'd never been given that option . |
| 4 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 5 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 6 | I was not given the run of the pavillon and I took it that , since I had not been extended this facility , I was not welcome to it . |
| 7 | And , besides , I had always been told that self-pity was despicable . |
| 8 | I 've not been given any instructions ! |
| 9 | I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 11 | I 've just been watching all that Fields , that chap Fields . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 13 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 14 | Yes I 've just been told that . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've also been playing these new Chandler guitars . |
| 16 | I 've had some packed lunches which were perfect , but I 've also been sold some horrors . |
| 17 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 18 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 19 | I have already been given several different figures , and was told by one person I could have 50 × 12″ fish because I have a good filter . |
| 20 | I have n't been told that . |
| 21 | I have n't been told that , but |
| 22 | Mm , I have n't been shopping this weekend . |
| 23 | Though I have n't been testing these boots for long before writing this review , initial impressions are very favourable . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't been having any nasty suspicious thoughts … ’ |
| 25 | I have n't been doing much on Sunday . |
| 26 | Do you think I have not been following all that you have done and all that has been done to you all these months ? ’ |
| 27 | If it is n't correct , I would like to know why Engineering 's approval has been withheld , because I have never been given any indication , at any stage , that there were any major problems regarding the project . |
| 28 | That might well have been true in the early 1960s but not in the 1990s , so let us not revive a distinction which has thankfully been eliminated All kinds of research in education have gone far beyond this narrow form . |
| 29 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 30 | Alistair Clarke of Christie 's furniture department expressed satisfaction that the market had held up in the light of the considerable quantity of important French furniture which has already been offered this season . |