Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 4 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 6 | But I 've been offered several million for it . |
| 7 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 8 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 9 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 10 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 11 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 12 | It 's odd ( and I feel a little guilty ) but I have been feeling happier today than at any time since I came here . |
| 13 | But she has been given special dispensation to play in two events in her home state before that birthday . |
| 14 | But she has been left stranded after thieves stole the blue Yamaha XT600 from the car park of a Southport hotel . |
| 15 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 16 | What time we were gon na be viewing houses but we 've been to see two . |
| 17 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 18 | But they have been saying that for 20 years . |
| 19 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 20 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 21 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 22 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 23 | But he has been found guilty of committing serious sexual offences , and given a conditional discharge . |
| 24 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 25 | A legal opinion requested by the Attorney-General , Richard Thornburgh , effected the change in June , but it had been kept secret since then . |
| 26 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |
| 27 | The cask was later recovered , but it had been forced open and emptied . |
| 28 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
| 29 | But it 's been demolished this year . |