Example sentences of "and [pron] have [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've had five years here and nothing 's really been clamped down on us — we must do this and we must do that . |
| 2 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 3 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 4 | Before Rachel was born I bought about six stretchsuits , and I 've just been given 12 more but I have n't had to spend much on her clothes yet because I 've had so many presents . |
| 5 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 6 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 7 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I was encouraged by the way the idea was received by Sepp Blatter , Fifa 's general secretary , when I met him last month , ’ Kelly said yesterday , ‘ and I 've also been encouraged by his comments since then . ’ |
| 9 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 10 | ‘ There have been certain views about Nigel all the time and I 've sometimes been criticised for not playing him . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 14 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 15 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
| 16 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 17 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 18 | However , inner-city speakers normally , and quite consistently , have [ ae ] and [ Ε ] in items where the vowel precedes a velar consonant ( as noted above ) , and I have sometimes been told that this is affected by RP . |
| 19 | Neither Jochen Mass nor Patrick Tambay did much to push him towards fresh championships ; his Number One status in the team was assured without effort , and I have often been led to wonder what would have happened if Teddy Mayer had been smart enough to hire a young hot-shot to give Master James a needed shot in the arm . |
| 20 | This solution , which he regarded as amongst the most valuable and characteristic of all his works ( Hume 1981 p 165 ) and which had originally been suggested to him by his brother as the plan for a large house to be occupied by workmen ( Stephen , 1900 p 201 ) , he published in pamphlets entitled Panopticon or the Inspection House and Panopticon Postscripts Parts 1 and 11 . |
| 21 | Clause 74 provides for the valuation bands into which dwellings are to be placed and which have already been described in the Domestic Property ( Valuation ) ( Scotland ) Regulations 1991 . |
| 22 | The process of editing will take account of the other papers left by Miss Lister , including the vast number of letters which she left and which have already been calendered and partly transcribed . |
| 23 | The natural conclusion , then , is that the basic body plans of the different phyla represent structures which adapted some ancestral form to a particular way of life , and which have since been modified to serve different functions . |
| 24 | What follows are the most reliable facts which his early biographies ( John Aiken , 1792 and James Baldwin Brown , 1823 ) provided and which have subsequently been checked and accepted , as far as possible , from his own works and from later accounts . |
| 25 | Babel 's bad times could be turned into art — an art which has been seen to release him , as it were , from his subject , and which has also been seen to hesitate . |
| 26 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 27 | The object of the Institution is , to reform , and bring into a regular system , that important branch of medicine which regards the treatment of diseases incidental to horses and other cattle , and which has hitherto been neglected and much abused in this country … |
| 28 | The materials which eventually evolved from this study include a questionnaire devised by the group and which has subsequently been used as a basis for further in-service training sessions in their schools . |
| 29 | Another factor which has reinforced this and which has hardly been remarked on in this context is the telephone . |
| 30 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |