Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , while her non-dramatic soul was saying that to present herself at Vasey 's looking the way she did was going a bit over the top , she had never been dismissed from a job before . |
| 2 | The information had been furnished by the French underground , and , as the crews had been told , there was no way of knowing if the information was correct . |
| 3 | These expressions have been italicized in the diagram above . |
| 4 | ‘ L'Etat c'est moi ’ was a shrewd remark , but can hardly have been intended as a definition even in the France of the time . |
| 5 | The account hovers on the brink of farce , and must surely have been intended as a spine-chiller more analogous to a modern horror film than a literal description of something which was to be believed in . |
| 6 | The place had been intended as a family home , he had told her . |
| 7 | Ziemian says there is more to come ; only the portion that requires new laws enacted by Congress has been leaked to the public so far . |
| 8 | Cope reckons that the album of B-sides will emerge one day but , with a ‘ Best Of … ’ currently on sale , the idea has been placed on the back-burner indefinitely . |
| 9 | His splendidly preserved antique desk had been placed like a barrier solidly across the room about two thirds of the way up . |
| 10 | We 've tinkered with the list a bit , and lots of people with dicky UK addresses will have had inscrutable messages saying you 've been subbed onto the list again . |
| 11 | It is a rare but recognised phenomenon that headaches as a result of sexual intercourse might indicate his condition which could have been treated by an operation regularly performed by neurosurgeons . ’ |
| 12 | These have been calculated by a technique misleadingly known as ‘ programme budgeting ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Been hanging round the theatre again , darling ? |
| 14 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 15 | Many things that a decade ago would have been regarded as the province exclusively of the statutory sector now fall into the voluntary sector . |
| 16 | Anthony Caro 's ‘ Tower of Discovery ’ has already been erected in a plaza close to the entrance to Expo 's site . |
| 17 | However , Mr Graham said the secretaries of state for energy and the environment would be fully aware of how many objections had been received concerning the scheme more than 7,000 . |
| 18 | Bushes sagged loosely beneath it ; and the masonry at the crown of the arch showed paler than on either curve , as though it had been exposed to the air longer , perhaps concealed by the sheltering broom . |
| 19 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 20 | Dick 's fighter was not without its problems , the primary one being that the fuselage had been modified with a hacksaw so that there would be room to put a second seat in the airframe . |
| 21 | Where the rugs of a particular group fall into more than one price category , they have been included in the category most closely associated with their rugs ; their percentage costs in relation to the yardstick items indicate the range of qualities . |
| 22 | The jury had been confined to an hotel overnight and , in the judgment of Lord Lane , C.J. , any risk of prejudice was capable of being overcome by denying it access to radio and television . |
| 23 | Miss Goody Two Shoes has n't been to work for a week apparently . |
| 24 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 25 | Leather Lane is a weekday market so they could not have been bought there before Monday , and the bags must have been dropped into the letterbox later that morning . |
| 26 | It has been reported in the press today that gas regulation is in disarray . |
| 27 | I would certainly join my honourable friend in condemning the advice which has been reported in the paper today er the government 's efforts to improve the campaign against truancy and the to succeed in getting errant pupils back to school which is where they should be , I believe is and should be widely supported . |
| 28 | ‘ Contracts in gross ’ , as they were called , had been considered by the Office as early as 1812 , but only very occasionally used and never for a project the size of the Foreign Office . |
| 29 | ‘ Every room here has been booked since a year ago , and I was dearly hoping Donna would screw up the nerve to send her packing , but Mrs Foster happened by , and Matthew 's fiancée recognised her . |
| 30 | ‘ The poison could have been added at the table just before Sir Thomas was poisoned , ’ ventured Heinrich hopefully . |