Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 2 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 5 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs . |
| 7 | A family who 've been saved from eviction by an anonymous donor say it 's the best Christmas present they could have hoped for . |
| 8 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 9 | There 's an in er a strong tendency to call the the testimony of people who 've been abused into question in this way . |
| 10 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 11 | They 've been injected with plutonium in an effort to find out exactly how the radioactive substance affects people . |
| 12 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 15 | YOU 'VE been tuning into Lipstick on Your Collar , collecting the K-Tel classics of the Fifties and Sixties , and loved the musical Buddy . |
| 16 | I 've been coming to conference for the last fifteen years to help build the grand union which we 've got today and I 'm not gon na sit back and watch this carved up , for nobody , for nobody . |
| 17 | Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been left with egg on my face . |
| 19 | If learners can see and recognise the language they 've been studying in use in realistic situations this has two benefits : |
| 20 | I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east ! |
| 21 | We 've been fighting about money of late , but then again it might be my face . |
| 22 | They 've been banned from sale in Oxfordshire , but hundreds are believed to be in circulation across the country . |
| 23 | ‘ We 've been preparing for war for ages . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been dogged by humbug for years , ’ he told me . |
| 25 | And so I 've tried to open it up er rather wider and w what I 've I 've I 've been put in touch with a a thing called the independent schools , design and technology association , which covers design and technology studies in all independent schools . |
| 26 | Eight properties have been completed as part of the first renovation phase . |
| 27 | In his own interests the licence-holder , when structural alterations have been completed in compliance with an order , should intimate that fact to the clerk to the licensing board . |
| 28 | COMMUTERS on Merseyside have been warned of disruption on the railway network over the weekend , as engineers carry out essential maintenance work on the Wirral line . |
| 29 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 30 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |