Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he entered the garden through the back.gate , Isobel got up from in front of a flower bed where she had been planting bulbs . |
| 2 | Nicola , dressed in jeans and a white polo-neck sweater , left Blackpool 's Victoria Hospital where she has been undergoing tests this morning to be driven by an ambulance car with her parents to North Staffordshire Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent . |
| 3 | He worked out where you 'd been kept prisoner . ’ |
| 4 | Taxes Act 1988 , s678 deals with the situation where capital sums are paid by a connected company to the settlor and where there have been associated payments made by the trustees to that company . |
| 5 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 6 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 7 | In fact where it has been adopted results suggest that most employees are extremely realistic about their own performance and can indeed make a reasonably accurate assessment . |
| 8 | The latter has also been identified in proliferating Schwann cells where it has been termed SCIP [ 9 ] . |
| 9 | ‘ Plenty of much bigger bastards than you have been made captain , ’ Kimberly said . |
| 10 | An arts student may have no arguments either way ; they 've just heard of this mystical thing called Science , but once you 've been doing Science , you realize that a statement like that just does not hold water , and so it enables faith to come far more easily . |
| 11 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 12 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 13 | It 's absolutely massive , yes , it 's a national er campaign , so we 've been recruiting people from all kinds of ways ; direct mail , er getting in touch with people who 've done it for us before , er through magazines and so on and the whole thing has been a major logistical undertaking . |
| 14 | Although there had been fulling mills along the river for several centuries , the first industrial age mill was not built until 1790 . |
| 15 | Generally , they are a healthy breed although there have been known cases of luxating patella ( slipping kneecap ) and the occasional heart murmur , but these are the exception rather than the rule . |
| 16 | I mean even if you did provide reassurances , just because the peasants were well aware of the fact that hardl although they 'd been given lands and their had been er the lan you know the previous been destroyed , the Communist Party could take back their land tomorrow if they wanted to . |
| 17 | ‘ But South Africa are a much better team than they 've been given credit for , and they are getting better with every match . |
| 18 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 19 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 20 | As we have already seen , the law has been less ready to protect these interests from negligently inflicted harm than it has been to protect person and tangible property , but we are now concerned only with liability for intended harm . |
| 21 | Well , he was more interested than he has been given credit for , and he had a wonderful collection of eighteenth-century English books which he gave to Trinity College , Cambridge . |
| 22 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 23 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 24 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 25 | If I 've been doing alot which is tiring and it 's cold , I tend to become more run-down and off-colour . |
| 26 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 27 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 28 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 29 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 30 | I ca n't spea cos I 've been learning German I ca n't remember it . |