Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 2 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 3 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 4 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 5 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 6 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 7 | I have always thought that we entered the ERM at a rate of exchange that was much too high , and I have been reinforced in this view by Britain 's poor showing in international trade during the past 18 months . |
| 8 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 9 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 10 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 11 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 12 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 13 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 14 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |
| 15 | She carries in her wings great power and mystery even though she has been cast in these Cages for so long . |
| 16 | She has been included in many mixed shows and in 1990 held her first sell-out one-woman exhibition at The Scottish Gallery , London . |
| 17 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 18 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 21 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 22 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 23 | She had been born in this apartment — in the bedroom that he slept in , maybe the very bed , she grinned — and she loved the place . |
| 24 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 25 | Even after she had been caught in that ruined church with Ginger Higby , that old bitch of a commandant in the women 's ambulance service had n't wanted to lose her . |
| 26 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 27 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 28 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 29 | What should you do about old hurts , the catalogues of personal dramas we have been unearthing in this chapter ? |
| 30 | This notion is , of course , implicit in the construction of the sets of features of context which we have been considering in this chapter . |