Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 3 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 4 | For many women , it 's the first time they have been given a responsibility of this kind . |
| 5 | In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I 've been done for anything . |
| 6 | I have been described as many things , but that is the first time I have been described as a tourist attraction . |
| 7 | Yes I 'm afraid I 've come in as a a last minute substitute and I feel as if in the eighty ninth minute I 've been given a penalty to take that could win the match or |
| 8 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 9 | Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database . |
| 10 | For the last month you have been signed off sick from work , which has meant that your confidence in your ability to cope has further diminished . |
| 11 | In the public sector , both Queen 's University and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland remain our staunch and indispensable friends — as they have been since the Festival started , and since last year they have been joined by the Belfast City Council . |
| 12 | I know , for the last year we 've been saying we 'll go to Norwich |
| 13 | Since the summer of last year we have been living with the consequences of Mrs Thatcher 's unreasoned dislike of the ERM . |
| 14 | In the last year we have been developing an occasional series to respond to this demand — the Survivors ' Guide . |
| 15 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 16 | Since last Christmas I have been struggling towards getting better . |
| 17 | ‘ It will be the third time I 've been measured for a blazer — but I missed out on the last two ( matches ) , ’ Lane added . |