Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months .
2 ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’
3 I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ?
4 Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance .
5 When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it .
6 Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’
7 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
8 We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ?
9 ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled .
10 But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’
11 I 've been designing a new collection . ’
12 I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory .
13 I 've been feeling a wee bit sick .
14 I 've been feeling a wee bit
15 ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’
16 I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something "
17 ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat .
18 I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four .
19 ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly .
20 I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns .
21 For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it .
22 ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic .
23 But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’
24 You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present .
25 In recent years , however , some scientists have been trying a new approach , ‘ cold fusion ’ , which involves ‘ changing ’ the behaviours of atoms at room temperatures .
26 I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products .
27 Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature .
28 But can I just make the point that we have been investing a great deal in British Rail , and the idea that er all over the piece we 're talking about non-modernized railways simply not true .
29 So far we ( and he too , perhaps ) have been imagining a dark animal : an American brown bear , a Russian black bear , a reddish bear from Savoy .
30 To test this hypothesis , six methanogenic subjects have been fed a low sulphate diet for 34 days supplemented with sodium sulphate from day 11 to 20 .
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