Example sentences of "but [pron] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racing Santander FC , who will stage the match as a benefit for the Spanish PFA , said yesterday : ‘ An England security man has checked our ground but nothing has been decided about segregation or tickets . ’ |
| 2 | He says there are currently three contractors who are being prosectued but nothing has been proved against them yet . |
| 3 | but I 've been reinstated to twenty three pounds |
| 4 | But I 've been asked by the PM to co-operate with a special operative of the CIA . |
| 5 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 6 | " But I 've been thinking about it , Nenna , and praying . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 9 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 10 | You 'd be on the line for a certain amount of publicity , but I 've been looking at today 's papers and it seems you 've already had a taste of what the Press can be like … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 12 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 13 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 14 | In a couple of days she 'll be up and about again , but I 've been told by the doctor to keep her off school for a while longer . |
| 15 | But I 've been promised to Craig for years , I ca n't break my word . ’ |
| 16 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 17 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 18 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 19 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 20 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 21 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 23 | but I have been led in my experience to believe that they possess a natural intelligence and character which if properly guided and consistently handled should lead them to play a useful part in the synthesis of tribal life in Kenya … as a factor for stability in political development … |
| 24 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 25 | The courts were re-organized and criminal offences re-classified , reforms which affected large numbers of people , but which had been achieved with a minimum of political controversy . |
| 26 | Of course farmers and pastoralists themselves have developed their own and usually effective methods of soil and water conservation which they had evolved themselves and suited their own social relations of production and ecological conditions , but which had been disrupted by the colonial experience ( see Ch. 4 for examples ) . |
| 27 | The most immediate effect of the ruling was that legislation enacted in a number of states ( including Alabama , Idaho , Kansas , Maine , and North Dakota ) which continued similar provisions to those within the Pennsylvania law , but which had been beset by legal challenges , would almost certainly be declared constitutional . |
| 28 | The new excise rate proposals replaced the compulsory uniform rates which it had originally proposed in 1987 , but which had been rejected by nearly all member countries . |
| 29 | The Romanian Parliament had issued objections on Nov. 28 to the referendum 's being held in those Ukrainian territories which between 1918 and 1940 had been part of Romania , namely Northern Bukovina and Bessarabia , but which had been ceded to Ukraine under the terms of the Molotov-Ribentropp pact . |
| 30 | The restaurant will be in a ground-floor room where Wright had intended to place it , but which had been occupied by the conservation department , ( now relocated , with the museum 's storage facilities , to the city 's West Side ) . |