Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 2 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 3 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
| 4 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 5 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |