Example sentences of "have be [verb] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exemption has been granted to make it easier for eastern companies to adapt to the new standards . |
| 2 | ( The language of the extract has been modernized to render it accessible to the general reader . |
| 3 | ‘ Simon has been asking to meet you all evening , ’ she told Maggie . |
| 4 | Two crash programmes in December and January have boosted production of 81mm mortar bombs for both the British and the American forces — and the British design has been adapted to make it fit the slightly different mortar used by the Americans . |
| 5 | The qualification has been designed to make it possible for candidates to select modules which will give them the equivalent of at least three Highers in arts or social science areas . |
| 6 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 7 | He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair . |
| 8 | The background against which they fought was arid red desert ; they might have been fighting to make it green again ; yet one had the feeling that if either defeated the other it would be disaster . |
| 9 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 10 | An attempt had been made to set it alight but no damage was caused . |
| 11 | It was poorly and sparsely furnished ; a brave effort had been made to keep it tidy and clean . |
| 12 | If only the rest had been encouraged to play it big and brassy like this . |
| 13 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 14 | No operation had been invented to give you small feet . |
| 15 | Taking a folder from a wire tray on the desk , he said , ‘ I 've been trying to reach you all morning . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been trying to contact you all day . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been meaning to give you these of Uncle John 's , Phil , ’ he 'd said taking the medals out of his pocket . |
| 18 | We have been asked to make it clear and we accept Chelsea is not in a precarious financial position . |
| 19 | We have been asked to make it clear that the joint Essex County Council/Essex TEC scheme to create an enterprise centre at the site of a former school near Parkeston Quay ( reported in the EADT yesterday ) does not affect the company Autoprint , which will continue to trade from its premises at School House , Hamilton Street . |
| 20 | I have been advised to leave it alone and see if it gets better . |