Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of bed numbers it has substantially more relative to population than either London or New York , but like them has been closing short stay beds steadily since the mid-1970s . |
| 2 | The objective of the other forms of nationalization was clearly similar and the effect of each of them has been to reduce foreign ownership in the corporate sector to a relatively modest level . |
| 3 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 4 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 5 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 6 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 7 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 8 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 9 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 10 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 11 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 12 | I have been using unleaded petrol in my Ninety 2.5 litre . |
| 13 | I have been paying National Insurance and taxes for many years . |
| 14 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 15 | She has been granted legal aid to pursue an action in the Court of Session against Lothian Regional Council . |
| 16 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 17 | ‘ I see you have been studying local history , Melissa , ’ he observed , indicating the book . |
| 18 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 19 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 20 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 21 | She had been named regional marketing services manager and expected the job to be confirmed . |
| 22 | Perhaps Ruth had done something especially stunning , as when she had been made chief maid of honour to the school 's May Queen . |
| 23 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 24 | You have been granted special access to the module by the owner or manager of the module OR |
| 25 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 26 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 27 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 29 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 30 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |