Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 2 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 3 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 4 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been using the front entrance lately . ’ |
| 6 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 7 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 8 | The defences could have been protecting an Imperial establishment rather than a small town . |
| 9 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 10 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 12 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 13 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 14 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 15 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 16 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 17 | Er now clearly if the if the members had si had been simply the highways committee had been deciding the preferred route simply on the basis of which gives the greatest traffic relief then on that basis they would have chosen an inner northern . |
| 18 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 19 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 20 | ROBERT LEE has been promised a good reception today when First Division leaders Newcastle visit promotion rivals Charlton . |
| 21 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 22 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 23 | Hermann Neuberger , the chairman of the International Football Federation World Cup organising committee , said players who had been shown the yellow card once during qualifying games would not have to carry it over to the finals . |
| 24 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 25 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 26 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 27 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 28 | The play was a brilliant pot-boiler which has been reinforcing the Jewish sterotype ever since . |
| 29 | That 's been gone a long time now . |
| 30 | Emblem have been negotiating an exclusive agency here in Malta … ’ |