Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His thin , pale face contorted as he said , " Well , I sha n't go into the seamy details … the more basic facets of life , but on a cleaner if more frustrating theme , I have been trying to seduce that lovely Dickson boy over the last week . |
| 2 | Joyce Cormie , Development Officer , Fife , Age Concern Scotland Having spent the last year doing a study on day care in Fife , I have been asked to do this presentation on the implications of day care for planners . |
| 3 | He bellowed through the letter box : ‘ My name 's Patrick Kelly and I have been asked to repossess this property . |
| 4 | When I do this sort of thing in England , I tell my agent to go out and say , ‘ I have been instructed to buy all this land by a woman who i9 completely mad . |
| 5 | Speaking reviews the different approaches which have been adopted to teach this important skill and suggests ways in which teachers can act to acquire a better understanding of the way speaking is learned . |
| 6 | So rather than use the other terms which have been suggested to describe this variety , such as " black Cockney " , " black London English " , " British Black English " , which suggest a specifically black " ethnolect " , Hewitt prefers to talk of the " local multi-racial vernacular " . |
| 7 | It is free of chlorofluorocarbon gases which have been used to cool most fridges for decades . |
| 8 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
| 9 | Indeed there are many highly intelligent children who are completely uninterested in the kinds of questions set at O or A level in English , questions about the choice of words in the sonnets of Keats or Jane Austen 's power of characterization , who have been set to read these texts with a view to answering such questions , and who are perhaps turned away from reading for ever by being required to embark on a specialized and academic study of literary criticism for which they are totally unsuited by taste , temperament , or ability . |
| 10 | We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time . |
| 11 | We have been appointed to handle all safety management aspects of Crossrail , the high profile cross-London rail link planned by British Rail and London Underground . |
| 12 | Through surveys and informal questioning and , more recently , partnerships we have been trying to do that . ’ |
| 13 | I think that what we 're really looking for is a stimulating , exciting involvement of parents , of students , of teachers , of everyone who has an interest in the success of a school , and I think for some years at Cardinal Newman we have been trying to create this open society , which gives access at all levels to all the children and to their parents , and we do n't want to close the society in any shape or form . |
| 14 | We have been trying to brief some Labour Members , especially the London Members . |
| 15 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 16 | They have been helped to do this by the introduction of so-called ‘ call-off ’ contracts set up by Purchasing — which is part of AEA Estates — to enable them to place orders . |
| 17 | He claimed : ‘ It concerns us that they have been enticed to take this step . ’ |
| 18 | Erm , but it 's impressive that he now feels we should be allowed to spend more money to create jobs , because of course a lot of us have been trying to point that out for years to the governments which stupidly cap authorities so they ca n't actually carry out the infrastructure improvements that are needed to enable the economy and the society to function properly . |