Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As each layer of weathered rock , or soil , has formed it has been washed away , or eroded , by the rain water running off the surface in streams and rivers . |
| 2 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 3 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 4 | Kiam is keeping quiet , but Chase Manhattan has confirmed it has been retained and that selling Remington is one of several possibilities under review . |
| 5 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 6 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 7 | I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in . |
| 8 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 9 | But , having heard I had been invited , Robin persuaded me to accept , saying he was going to meet a trainer friend there who would know all the winners . |
| 10 | I 've been saying to her well you 'll have to wait she 's been saying her feet hurt , right ? |
| 11 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 12 | If I do that , the Company does n't have to know I 've been interfacing data when I should n't . |
| 13 | ‘ It was n't right because of what people might say — seeing you there night after night eating alone , they might have said you had been abandoned . ’ |
| 14 | They may have thought they had been abused therefore they could do it . |
| 15 | During that 45 minutes , when Arsenal fans must have thought they had been transported from Highbury to Camelot , even Anders Limpar on the bench was forgotten by them . |
| 16 | A task she had to perform , a necessity ; an observer could have thought she had been ordered to do this , to sit on that step with her fingers pushing her flesh about over her face . |
| 17 | Mr Wildish said : ‘ I would n't have thought she had been sleeping rough . ’ |
| 18 | One might have thought he had been beaten to the composition of the most perfectly unfilmable book by William Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch , which depicts a peculiarly literary and private nightmare . |
| 19 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 20 | If — and it was a megalithic if , but I supposed we should consider every possible option now we were at it — if , in some weird way the Ghost and her voice really did exist , then as soon as she 'd got over her disappointment , she would have to admit she 'd been defeated fair and square , and would just have to honour the deal and flit off back to heaven or wherever it was she lived now . |
| 21 | She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected . |
| 22 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 23 | Philip held out the paper that the chocolate bar Lee had given him had been wrapped in . |
| 24 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 25 | As you 've heard we 've been cutting costs pretty significantly over the last couple of years erm what we 're talking about is three thousand people having been er made redundant over the two and a half years and as we were saying earlier substantial redundancy costs have had to be borne . |
| 26 | ( The bank clerk who had occupied it had been called up to the army . ) |
| 27 | Halfway through the letter , Bruno said in German : ‘ Ah , he is a major in their Army , ’ and then smiled hastily at Maxim because he had forgotten they had been speaking German earlier . |
| 28 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 29 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 30 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |