Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 2 | The layers of horn and yew had been blended together with such care that it was hard to tell which was set upon which . |
| 3 | The waterfall is a part of the enormously extensive and complicated subterranean water system that has been traced now through this limestone mass if and which links up with the astonishingly deep fissures or gouffres that the speleologists have explored in the mountains to the east . |
| 4 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 5 | The first Cistercians were men who sought to return to the simplicity of Benedict 's Rule and to its strict observance which they argued had been altered out of all recognition by the Cluniacs who spent much of the day in a long and elaborate round of services in choir . |
| 6 | So dear Dr. Godman I feel I have been treated badly in this case and would be grateful if you would pursue this matter further . |
| 7 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 8 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 9 | Helena said : ‘ I know I have no overdraft facility but I genuinely believed there was enough money to pay my mortgage and feel I have been punished out of all proportion . |
| 10 | Diplomatic relations between the UK and Libya had been broken off since that year . |
| 11 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 12 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 13 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 14 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 15 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 16 | She explored the place where his manhood lay and he , in turn , used experienced fingers to set alight that part of her where carnal longings had been damped down until that moment . |
| 17 | The store had not been trading profitably for some time indicating there simply is not enough money circulating in the area to sustain it . |
| 18 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 19 | She 's only done half the course and already she has been picked out for this job . |
| 20 | They said that no English forward scouts had been reported anywhere in this vicinity ; nor had the Earl made any direct contact with them . |
| 21 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 22 | The regional differences in house prices have been considered earlier in this chapter ( and in Table 9.1 , column 6 ) . |
| 23 | Some of these clauses have been considered earlier in this chapter . |
| 24 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 25 | Where TVEI is designed to be only a part of a pupil 's curriculum in the 14–18 age range , the CPVE has , in contrast , been designed explicitly for that section of the pupil population for whom A-levels are inappropriate , but who wish to achieve some further , more vocationally relevant qualification at school . |
| 26 | How much unpaid Poll Tax has been carried forward into this year 's budget ? |
| 27 | No Community Charge arrears have been carried forward into this year 's budget . |
| 28 | As we have already discussed , the ancestry of the rose is extremely wide and complicated , and although extraordinary genealogical detective work has been carried out into many family trees , one wonders how it is possible to be sure of the right direction when travelling through the mists and fogs of time , especially during the period before copyright was extended to plants , when secrecy was a safeguard against competition . |
| 29 | The European Convention is different in kind , and the British signatories of it , worthy predecessors to the signatories of the Treaty of Brussels in 1972 , put an end to a period of more than four centuries during which no causes have been carried out of this realm . |
| 30 | This is why we appear to be witnessing a new round of military coup attempts in those happy places where western prescriptions have been carried out with such fidelity : for example , Fujimoro in Peru last week , and the events in Venezuela in February . |