Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 3 | Ornithologically nothing has been gained from these changes in habitat on which the Sussex populations of some species largely depend . |
| 4 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 5 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 6 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 7 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 8 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 10 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 12 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 13 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 15 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 16 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 17 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 18 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 19 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 20 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 21 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 22 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 23 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 24 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 25 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 26 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 28 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 29 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 30 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |