Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [pron] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took two and on Tuesday and it 's been fine since so God knows what 's gone wrong . |
| 2 | And and come in on the , he came on the Tuesday and he 's been three days a couple of weeks so |
| 3 | I asked Clem if there had been any other jingle sessions where he 'd had to recreate an original . |
| 4 | It was reported on TV-AM that there had been forty arrests as a result of the riot , but it was not known if any charges would be brought . |
| 5 | It is a great merit in Mrs Taylor that she has been content to be guided by her moral taste , which is very fine and true , without trying to form a set of principles upon it . |
| 6 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 8 | In 1919 the first of the Rubies landed in Brazil and there have been regular importations ever since . |
| 9 | Is he not ashamed that so many children have been thrown on to the streets of Scotland while he has been Prime Minister ? |
| 10 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 11 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 12 | The guide was written by Des Hannigan and there has been some friction between the two in recent years , caused to some extent by Rowland and Mark Edwards ' new-routing techniques . |
| 13 | She had been wondering if she would have gone to visit Rupert if he had been ill , or if she would have left in to Sophia . |
| 14 | The Bears suffered a crushing 58–32 defeat at Brough Park on Sunday and there has been frantic activity in the Bears ' camp to get machines and riders ready for revenge . |
| 15 | ‘ Some players were just not doing their stuff at Bradford and there has been some strong talking this week . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Obviously I 'm hopeful of getting to Sweden and it 's been great to be involved with the England squad . ’ |
| 17 | They had had a farewell drink together , two women who had worked well together without ever abandoning their professional personae , Maria because she had been afraid of inadvertently giving away something that might alert Cavell 's suspicions where Luke was concerned . |
| 18 | She wanted to prove to Madame Gloriana that she had been wrong — to let her see how happy she was . |
| 19 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 20 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 21 | ‘ Juliette and I have been able to help each other . |
| 22 | The views of many Conservative Members of Parliament are much more profound in their objection to certain trends in Europe than it has been possible to encapsulate in any short Motion . |
| 23 | Over the past twelve years , in regard to the Conservative government 's radical course of action , changes have been made to the Welfare State and life in Britain that we have been powerless to resist . |
| 24 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 25 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 26 | It had come home to her earlier when she discovered that the Prince had sent a bouquet of flowers to Camilla when she had been ill . |
| 27 | Yeah but we 've had we 've had times before Peter when there 's been huge pressure . |
| 28 | Research sections have been set up at the Institutes of Education in Kenya and Sierra Leone and there have been important regional conferences on educational evaluation ( at Dar es Salaam in April 1975 ) and on the growth of scientific and mathematical concepts in East African children ( Nairobi , September 1974 ) . |
| 29 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 30 | ‘ It is quite some time now since I last wrote to you , but both my wife Joan and I have been busy putting on shows for the Children 's Rescue Society , The Family Rainbow Trust , old people 's homes and Guide Dogs for the Blind , etc . |