Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 2 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 3 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 4 | The jury in the James Bulger murder trial at Preston have been hearing how the two eleven year old boys accused of murder blamed each other for most of the violence . |
| 5 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | For the past 23 years Unionists have been saying exactly the same thing with regard to both security policy and political policy . |
| 7 | Once the communications parameters have been set up the whole process is very simple and , so far as is possible , completely error-free . |
| 8 | Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit . |
| 9 | Well over 400 individual environmental measures have been taken over the past 12 months to deliver our commitments , ranging from telephone helplines for those concerned about air quality to major international agreements on new standards for cars and water . |
| 10 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 11 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |
| 12 | Sharma v Knight [ 1986 ] 1 WLR 757 is authority for the proposition that jurisdiction conferred on county courts by statute is a general one and it is not restricted to the district in which proceedings should have been brought in accordance with Ord 4 , r 8 and that , if proceedings have been brought in the wrong county court , then the court nevertheless has jurisdiction to deal with the matter . |
| 13 | Only then did she fully realise that if she had been five minutes later the watchers keeping a lookout for a stray boy might , tomorrow , have been hauling ashore the sodden body of Gus Hambro . |
| 14 | ‘ We decided to suspend treatment for a while but have been put on the waiting list at the Ulster . |
| 15 | But if issues like these have been put on the public agenda by feminists , the substantive gains they achieved were limited . |