Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 2 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 3 | ICE also own a number of properties in nearby Nelson Street and plans are under way to improve those , possibly housing the London Road Development Association which has been created to oversee the regeneration of the nearby shopping area . |
| 4 | The stock which has been sold has been disproportionately in the form of family houses . |
| 5 | One class of experiment which has been used to investigate this issue involves what is known as a lexical decision task . |
| 6 | Lincolnshire County Council had already introduced a pre-ERA scheme of delegation which had been used to fund much of its secondary education . |
| 7 | Professor Nicholas Day is the author of an unpublished Public Health Laboratory Service report on the spread of AIDS which has been expected to revise official predictions of heterosexual victims downwards . |
| 8 | When an adult insect emerges the veins contain blood which has been observed to circulate through them , and even in the fully formed wings the circulation is often still maintained ( Yeager and Hendrickson , 1934 ; Clare and Tauber , 1940 ) . |
| 9 | The raiders made off in a car which had been reported stolen earlier . |
| 10 | Baldwin 's reluctance had therefore to be set against a formidable opposition which had been allowed to solidify and organize itself in his absence . |
| 11 | Most of the research which has been undertaken indicates that , with regard to final degree performance , mature students with non-traditional qualifications perform at least as well as traditionally qualified students with whom they have been compared . |
| 12 | This is because the research which has been done has shown that nearly two out of three neurotic patients recover over time , without any therapy at all . |
| 13 | Nothing would have induced me to part now except an overwhelming sense that the course of action which has been pursued has put the country- and not merely the country , but throughout the world , the principles for which you and I have always stood throughout our political lives-in the greatest peril that has ever overtaken them . |
| 14 | This development has introduced a definite tension between the ( still widespread ) ‘ middle class ’ aspirations of many salaried and non-industrial employees , and the forms of collective organisation and action which have been employed to defend their economic position . |
| 15 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 16 | Ensure that cutlery which has been cleaned using chemicals gets a thorough washing before going back into the dining room . |
| 17 | His life was not like hers and she was simply an outsider who had been forced to come here . |
| 18 | He was not restricted to making an order of damages , but could actually order a defendant who had been condemned to perform what he had failed to do . |
| 19 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 20 | Yet what really were the chances of seeing the very car you 'd been asked to look out for ? |
| 21 | Having lent Hale money to pay her rent she had been angered to discover her spending enormous sums on an haute-couture dress , and refused to turn up to what , in retrospect , became Hale 's farewell party . |
| 22 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 23 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |
| 24 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 25 | On the nights previous to the murder he had been seen lurking outside party headquarters . |
| 26 | The model of assessment which has been agreed has three levels ( fig 1 ) . |
| 27 | In the thirteen years since these figures were announced , the progress which has been made has been unsatisfactory . |
| 28 | A framework which has been found to work well in practice is : |
| 29 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 30 | He was boxed in by the final stupidity of total bureaucracy , reduced to a mere cypher in a computer which had been programmed to ignore him . |