Example sentences of "been [verb] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 2 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 3 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 4 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 5 | This looks to have been painted a long time ago . ’ |
| 6 | Richard North , a local environmental health officer who has been advising the nuns , said that contamination of eggs through the shell via the faeces had never been considered a serious risk either by the working party who had submitted evidence to the Select Committee on Salmonella in Eggs , or by the Public Health Service Laboratories . |
| 7 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's something that should have been done a long time ago . |
| 9 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 10 | The trolley had been pushed a few feet away and my handbag removed from my shopping bag . |
| 11 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 12 | The grandparent could have been living a few houses away . |
| 13 | He could explain that this had been written a long time ago , when he was quite a different person . |
| 14 | The Empire State Building has been moved a few blocks uptown . |
| 15 | After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay . |
| 16 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 17 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 18 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 19 | ROBERT LEE has been promised a good reception today when First Division leaders Newcastle visit promotion rivals Charlton . |
| 20 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 21 | the United fans enjoyed this game … they should have been celebrating a bigger win too … |
| 22 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 23 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 24 | for everything had been bought a long time ago |
| 25 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 26 | ‘ You know , St. David , that Welsh rugby has been having a terrible time lately . |
| 27 | Peer review has been having a hard time recently , while there is still widespread anger that the UGC 's devastating 1981 economies were resolved with little or no explanation of the philosophy behind them . |
| 28 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 29 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 30 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |