Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The popularity of Taylor 's devotional books , his sufferings for the Church , his piety , engaging manner , and contacts in influential Royalist circles might have been expected to qualify him for high preferment in the restored Church in 1660 . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 3 | " I am the sentry who is never relieved " , he said at the opening of new rooms at the Military Museum in Madrid on 7 March 1946 , conveniently overlooking the fact that several unavailing attempts had been made to relieve him since 1939 . |
| 4 | I shall work in , because I mean I 'm the one who 's been pushing to get them on this . |
| 5 | Over 200 species of birds have been seen anointing themselves with these substances . |
| 6 | Secondly , the IBM Agent market does not welcome untried and untested ( new ) products with open arms , and Cognos has been attempting to prove itself in this market . |
| 7 | Betty 's other criticism of the scheme is that she has been told to use it for individualised learning and she does not believe that the children learn properly this way . |
| 8 | Telefonica de Espana SA now says it will fight the court ruling ordering it to sell one or other of its holdings in Chile 's two main telecommunications companies — and appeal to international law if necessary : Telefonica has 43.6% in Compania de Telefonos de Chile SA and 20% of Entel Chile SA , and has been told to sell one within 18 months . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been waiting to pick him for some time but our form was not good and it was not easy on Dion living in hotels . |
| 10 | The Mercedes which had been promised to take them to All Saints ' Church , Deganwy , for the wedding on Saturday was sold . |
| 11 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 12 | SULTRY , sinewy and sophisticated , computer workstations have been used to create everything from 3-D molecular models to the psychopathic cyborg in ‘ Terminator 2 ’ . |
| 13 | As many audiences and record collectors already know , he took lessons in conducting so that he might perform the work himself , and since his first concert in New York 's Lincoln Center , he has been invited to perform it with 20 orchestras around the world ( he will be conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall , London in November ) . |
| 14 | The vision of the vain , silly girl she had been seemed to accuse her in some obscure way . |
| 15 | as if my whole life , he wrote , had been spent working at the glass and at the same time had been spent doing nothing at all . |
| 16 | None of these were things that had been known to occupy him on other mornings . |
| 17 | Linen was the most popular cloth of the period but no way had been found to bleach it to better than a dirty white colour and even that could be achieved only by up to eighteen months of processing . |
| 18 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 19 | An electronic system 's been introduced to alert them to any emergency . |
| 20 | He has been asked to commit himself to 10 of the new Grand Prix tournaments next year , aside from the four Grand Slam events . |
| 21 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 22 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 23 | Gusev deduced that Volkov was in love with a woman who 'd been sent to entrap him for political purposes , so Gusev deduced . |
| 24 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |
| 25 | There is no biographical key with which it can be unlocked — and I have not been trying to turn one in this essay of mine , which does not believe it , for that matter , to be locked . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been trying to wake him for half an hour , ’ said Fritz . |
| 27 | Its owner , Okan Guney , has been trying to breed them at this home in Kidlington for two years . |
| 28 | They had been trying to contact her for several days . |
| 29 | ‘ You can be sure that the Greeks have been trying to organise something like this since ‘ The Age of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent ’ was such a success in America ’ , he added , referring to a travelling exhibition of objects from Turkish collections , organised by the National Gallery in 1987 . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's a sad time for me , but this is something for which I 've been trying to prepare myself for some time , ’ he said . |