Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [be] [verb] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been done and Bill 's been done . |
| 2 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 3 | I 've been told that prices go to the publishers six weeks before publication , but in this instance the price had changed three months previously . |
| 4 | " I want you to go away , because I 've been told that Timothy is in love with you . |
| 5 | I 've been told that men do n't like women , period . |
| 6 | Maloney said : ‘ I 've been informed that Lennox 's share will now be 75 per cent . |
| 7 | In effect , I have been saying that students ' academic freedoms are necessary conditions in the realization of the emancipatory promise of higher education . |
| 8 | " I have been spending and spending , " said Alice . |
| 9 | I have been told that synthetics are not warm enough on the one hand , or by others that they are too hot ! |
| 10 | She has been told that members of the Lords are permitted to use the facilities provided by the Commons — the bar , the library , etc — and trot up and down the Commons corridors . |
| 11 | ‘ You would n't be making such a fuss if you 'd been named as Vitor 's girlfriend , ’ the young man had declared . |
| 12 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 13 | She remembered being told that Nahum was dead . |
| 14 | Her pony-tail was weaving like a snake , and she was still dressed in blood-stained black armour and shiny leggings ; the same kit that she had been wearing when Ardamal and his section had dragged her , kicking and screaming , into the IMC executive transporter . |
| 15 | All her life she had been taught that Philip and his kind were aliens in possession of land which they had stolen from its rightful owners . |
| 16 | Blindly she moved back to her desk again , to the neat pages she had been stacking when Rob had come into the room . |
| 17 | It was difficult , too , to tell how far I 'd come on my own : before , we 'd been talking and time had probably passed quickly . |
| 18 | The lessons we observed were reading and writing and Maths . |
| 19 | Well you 've only got to go back to what we 've been discussing and Jesus |
| 20 | It was n't till the news that night that we realised we had been filmed while doing these taxi service for people . |
| 21 | We have been suggesting that career structures can serve well in the explanation of social behaviour which might otherwise appear to have little rationality . |
| 22 | However , the Supreme Council of National Security ( SCNS ) on Jan. 26 announced that all aircraft would be " confiscated " and their pilots kept in custody , stressing that " this policy would be applied to all parties which violate Iranian air , land or sea spaces " , and on the same day Baker confirmed that " we have been assured that Iran intends to remain totally neutral " . |
| 23 | We have been conceiving and speaking of causal circumstances as sets of conditions , and will continue to speak in this way . |
| 24 | In the Gospel we have been told that Jesus will bring about a new exodus ( 9:31 ) by his death and resurrection at Jerusalem : a release from a worse bondage and a more terrible death than that which befell the Israelites in Egypt . |
| 25 | We have been told that finances for health and safety will be found but we were never told from where that money would come from . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been told that Prince Charles sleeps in one room and his lady in another , ’ said a Korean worker at the hotel . |
| 27 | As we go to press we have been informed that AGI ( Electronics ) Ltd. and its subsidiaries KEF Electronics Ltd. , Meridian Audio Ltd. and Boothroyd Stuart Ltd. are in the hands of the receiver . |
| 28 | I can not comment on details of the negotiations because I do not know the details of what is actually happening today , but it is quite clear that we have been arguing that matters affecting foreign policy should continue to be decided under the auspices of intergovernmental co-operation . |
| 29 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 30 | The far-off cries of the lone bird they 'd been hearing since sunset had recently seemed to double in intensity , and Loc realized that Paul Devraux had been echoing its call by blowing on blades of jungle grass between his thumbs . |