Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear that nothing had been gained by removing the prince , especially as another ruler had now to be found . |
| 2 | His village was at the upper end of the valley in which the woman of Lohali had been killed the previous week , and he told me that nothing had been heard of the man-eater since , and added that the animal was possibly now at the other end of the district . |
| 3 | There had been no word from Steve or Maria Lisa and though there was no time element concerned with this contract she was still a little worried that nothing had been accomplished with the airlines and tourist board in Palma . |
| 4 | Once we 'd established that nothing had been left behind Emily went off to catch a bus and I decided that no one would mind if I popped my head round the doors of the suite of rooms which George had occupied . |
| 5 | Students often complain that nothing has been learned from a particular allocation . |
| 6 | I consider that nothing has been laid before your Lordships to justify the view that their advice based on this objection was incorrect . |
| 7 | The important thing to remember , however , is that in many cases no definitive diagnosis can be made until the results have come back from the laboratory and the fact that nothing has been found at the time of the first visit does not mean that the follow-up visit should be missed . |
| 8 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 9 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 10 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 11 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 12 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 13 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 14 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 15 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 16 | My report to the Planning Committee is a sound professional technical planning report and I believe that on the information that I 've been supplied with I can recommend to the Planning Committee to approve the application . |
| 17 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 19 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 20 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 21 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 22 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 23 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 24 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 25 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 26 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 27 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 28 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 29 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 30 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |