Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 2 | I had never been given the opportunity to explain to him the difficulties in making recommendations about the teaching of language . |
| 3 | The future depended on decisions I could not possibly predict , but at least I had now been offered a shadow of a lifeline , and that , for the moment , would have to do . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 5 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 9 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been showing the insurance gentleman where the bells are kept , Mr Caretaker . |
| 11 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 13 | I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility . |
| 14 | She rolled her shirt-sleeves and crouched on the platform shouting back , above the noise of the engine and Marley , ‘ I 've just been checking the records . |
| 15 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 16 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 17 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 18 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |
| 20 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 21 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 22 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 23 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 24 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 25 | I have also been exploring the Bit Knitter and the range of design options offered by Deluxe Paint , which is a very powerful graphics package . |
| 26 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 27 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 28 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 30 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |