Example sentences of "[pron] have [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 | And , besides , I had always been told that self-pity was despicable . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 6 | I 've just been watching all that Fields , that chap Fields . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 8 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 9 | Yes I 've just been told that . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've also been playing these new Chandler guitars . |
| 11 | I 've had some packed lunches which were perfect , but I 've also been sold some horrors . |
| 12 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 13 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The idea of the still image is one which has already been mentioned several times both in this and in the preceding chapter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Others enjoying this fabulous luncheon were Mr Simon Courtauld , the very attractive Mrs David Levin , and Mr Martin Hale formerly with Claridge 's , now the youthful Director of Lowell 's Hotel , New York , which has recently been made another new member . |
| 20 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 21 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 22 | She has also been painted this year by Howard Morgan , for Unilever . |
| 23 | He said wonderingly , ‘ You 've really been storing this up , have n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days . |
| 25 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 26 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 27 | Lay readers or elders who have traditionally been given this job may well not be gifted to lead the congregation in the way described above . |
| 28 | You have probably been given this brochure by your local ABTA Travel Agent . |
| 29 | But we 've also been told this year , that there will be year four , beyond this slide , where the same thing could happen again . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've just been agreeing that what 's between us is personal , have n't we ? ’ |