Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs yeah Shrimp , you got good English ! |
| 2 | At the moment everyone has been talking about other people behind people 's backs . |
| 3 | And this week the IMF made public what everyone has been saying in private : that there can be little foreign help on offer until the Soviet Union reforms its ‘ rotten ’ economy . |
| 4 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ornithologically nothing has been gained from these changes in habitat on which the Sussex populations of some species largely depend . |
| 7 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 8 | No-one has been executed for three years , human rights groups said . |
| 9 | Someone has been murdered in mysterious circumstances : how has it come about ? |
| 10 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 11 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 16 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 17 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 18 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 19 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 21 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 25 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 26 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 27 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 28 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 29 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 30 | 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 . |