Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 2 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 4 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 5 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 6 | Blame had n't been fastened on anyone except some unknown nutter back in the wilds of Ontario . |
| 7 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 8 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 9 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 10 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 12 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 13 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 14 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 15 | Apartments had been booked for them in one block and they shared in couples . |
| 16 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 17 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been looking into something like this for about two years and come up against brick walls constantly , ’ she said . |
| 19 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 20 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 21 | You have been looking for it for eight years . |
| 22 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 23 | In many cases some of the work has been done for you by previous scholars ; so , for example there is a book called Allusions in Ulysses ( which lists allusions made in James Joyce 's novel Ulysses ) . |
| 24 | For he often smelled of scent and powder which had been transferred to him from one or other of his dolly-birds . |
| 25 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 26 | Not a word had been said to him of any untoward suspicions , or of the threat of an eyewitness coming to judgement this very night . |
| 27 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 28 | Although it has been argued that most of the ideas central to general systems theory are certainly valuable , they had been applied to it without formal knowledge of the theory ( Jennings , 1973 , p. 124 ) , nevertheless the theory has focused thinking and has probably been responsible for a more comprehensive view of many environmental situations . |
| 29 | Well , to be strictly truthful , camp had already been made for us by some hi-tech realtors . |
| 30 | But serious allegations had already been made against him by this date . |