Example sentences of "that [pron] have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 2 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 3 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 4 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 5 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 6 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 7 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 8 | But he added : ‘ That said , I must say I am extremely pessimistic about the future of the plant , given all that I have been hearing these last few days . ’ |
| 9 | I might mention that I have been using these movements since the commencement of my business in 1983 , with outstanding performance both as to accuracy and reliability . |
| 10 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 11 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 12 | ‘ This is the reason they were first given and I would like to think that I have been given this award because of that . |
| 13 | So that answers all those years that I have been conducting these seminars , it answers my question not in the way I was particularly happy about I have to say , but I mean it did answer my question and then it may be them having you know I mean like sort of things I may not be particularly happy with , but maybe it is good that the papers are reflecting what the community wants . |
| 14 | I say that with some feeling because , in the three years , that I have been doing this job I have not heard so many well-qualified solicitors and barristers , people from the legal community and inquests and from pressure groups say that there are areas of deep concern . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that I have been asking this question , mostly of him , for the past 13 years and that that reply reflects how serious is youth unemployment in Scotland ? |
| 16 | Dr Marshall , 60 , said it was disgraceful that she had been given little more than 48 hours to tidy her office . |
| 17 | For a moment Kelly thought that she had been buried alive . |
| 18 | Mabel had told everyone that she was sure that war was about to start , and at first she seemed disgruntled that she had been proved wrong , but soon was as ecstatic as everyone else about the news . |
| 19 | ‘ I heard on Wednesday from a neighbour that she had been left alone by her mother who had gone to Spain . |
| 20 | It seemed that she had been knocked silly too . |
| 21 | Winnie Mandela told supporters that she had been found guilty by the media . |
| 22 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 23 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 24 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 25 | Perhaps the reason is that she has been persuaded that teacher approval , and whatever other more tangible extrinsic rewards may follow , are in short supply and to gain what she needs she must not simply ( or even necessarily ) improve but also get ( or merely stay ) ahead of others . |
| 26 | ‘ I can see that you 've been made upset . |
| 27 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 28 | Now that you 've been proved right ? ’ |
| 29 | It 's just that you have been waiting all afternoon for it to arrive and now have little choice but to try and bludgeon your way through the waves of cover tacklers . |
| 30 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |