Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
| 2 | Perhaps , I only say perhaps , I promise nothing , ’ he said , throwing his purse carelessly from one hand to another , ‘ perhaps I have been told to give you a present when you lose your apprentice . ’ |
| 3 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 4 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 5 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 6 | A slight chill the day after the sale had delayed her journey to London and so she had been forced to leave Summer Lodge with her few possessions in a bag and watch as the cab carried her from the large estate on the hill to the cramped rooms of the house in Chapel Street . |
| 7 | So she 's been trying to get work off her . |
| 8 | So you have been taught to read ? ’ |
| 9 | Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village . |
| 10 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 11 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
| 12 | He had left the army as a major , but the clerks in the Horse Guards had determined that his majority was only brevet rank , not regimental , and so he had been forced to accept a lieutenant 's pension . |
| 13 | Glenda Grower 's hair , auburn and shiny , was normally tied in a neat bun at the back of her head , but tonight it had been allowed to stream glamorously down her back . |
| 14 | Somehow he had been persuaded to leave the northern frontier and venture far to the south to take part in a non-military dig . |
| 15 | The more the study of BSL has progressed , the more it has been seen to fit general language principles . |
| 16 | But when this rain came down , it was like it had been sent to stop it you know . |
| 17 | And practically nothing has been done to establish effective machinery of joint conference between the representative organizations entitled to speak for industry as a whole . |
| 18 | Two years and two back operations later he has been forced to call it a day . |
| 19 | If it had been timed to go off an hour later , probably it had been timed to go off an hour later but something had gone wrong , the hotel dining room would have been full and the results of the explosion much worse . |
| 20 | So often I have been forced to submit to playing on the worst courts or not at all . |
| 21 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 22 | Odd , he reflected , that now she had been forced to make a straight denial , he had lost his confidence . |
| 23 | Now she 's been given notice to quit by Wednesday … |
| 24 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 25 | Now they have been told to restore normal services ‘ without delay ’ , but no deadline is stipulated . |
| 26 | ‘ So far they have been taught to become very good technical accountants . |
| 27 | Often they have been created to meet needs or express values ( equity , justice , retribution ) not readily met or expressed by the market . |
| 28 | Two days earlier he had been driving troop carriers at Kuchino , one of the KGB 's training centres outside Moscow , and now he 'd been asked to drive for General Benin no less . |
| 29 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 30 | For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun . |