Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 2 | Mair interviewed a clutch of former BR executives who claimed they had been made redundant for pressing their inquiries too closely , and the understandably defensive chairman of British Rail 's Parcels Board , Gordon Pettitt , who admitted that things had gone wrong but could n't see what all the fuss was about . |
| 3 | I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 5 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 6 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 7 | He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around . |
| 8 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 9 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 10 | PC Stephen Noble who attended the scene at the college annex told the coroner a check on the van revealed it had been stolen eleven days previously . |
| 11 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 12 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 13 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 14 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 15 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 16 | She said she had been released half a mile away on a misty common and had not eaten for a long time . |
| 17 | as two apostles of Jesus said we 've been declared righteous now by his word , the boy of Jesus God 's son |
| 18 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 19 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 20 | Sources said they have been given six weeks to finish their assignments and another four weeks severance . |
| 21 | He said he had been made redundant . |
| 22 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 23 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 24 | Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 25 | Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files , including ‘ top secret ’ material , by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ . |
| 26 | He said he 'd been feeling depressed . |
| 27 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 28 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |