Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 4 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 5 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 6 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been showing the insurance gentleman where the bells are kept , Mr Caretaker . |
| 11 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 12 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 13 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 14 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |
| 16 | Erm you know the difficult thing for me is when I 'm working with people who 've actually been given no notice at all , and that 's happening with lots of organizations where on Friday you 're suddenly told you 've got no job , but your pension 's available . |
| 17 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 18 | The fact that one in five of the complaints were held to be breaches of the code shows that the tobacco companies have perhaps been treating the committee and the issue in a cavalier way . |
| 19 | A family who 've been on a council waiting list for four years have finally been offered a house which has been wrecked by vandals . |
| 20 | But if he accepts integrity and knows that some victims of emotional injury have already been given a right to compensation , he will have a reason for deciding in favour of Mrs. McLoughlin nevertheless . |
| 21 | But I mean , my dad always invites his staff to have a drink at the end of the evening and I mean , most of them have already been bought a drink during the course of the evening , anyway , so they 're entitled to it . |
| 22 | ‘ This year we have already been told the reason we have had three surges higher than anticipated was because of the bath-tub effect from closing the Thames barrier , ’ she said . |
| 23 | If you have already been offered a job and have agreed on a job description with your future service manager , then you may like to analyse it in the same way . |
| 24 | ‘ Miss Kenton , I have not been using a dust-pan . ’ |
| 25 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 26 | ‘ We are walking out because we feel we have not been given a hearing , ’ Inkatha negotiator Joe Matthews said as he left the talks . |
| 27 | The Greater Peterborough TEC says : ’ Within the Youth Training programme we have about 150 young people actively seeking a place for training who at the moment have not been given an offer the fundamental problem is that the unit cost on which the funds are allocated being for this programme are too low we would hope that more money will be available to meet the guarantee because again , it is not a genuine guarantee , it is a demand-led guarantee and if we are funded on the basis of historical take-up this is bound to change when the economic climate changes , as has been experienced recently . |
| 28 | Over the past 20 years , there has been a growth in the number of these schools , because many parents have felt that governments have not been providing the quality of education once found in grammar schools , and are willing to forgo expensive holidays and luxuries , in order to provide the education they want for their children . |
| 29 | The British people have not been told the truth about that . |
| 30 | Have just been reading the book of Joel . |