Example sentences of "[pron] [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 2 | Have I been breaking that ? |
| 3 | How long had I been doing this without a break ? |
| 4 | ‘ Only I been sufferin' 'orrible suspicions about endin' up gettin' me own throat cut . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 6 | ‘ Has someone been spreading malicious gossip ? ’ he asked innocently , and reached for her hand . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone been smoking whacky baccy again ? ’ |
| 8 | He had himself been rising thirty-seven and when The Yellow Chair was put on had passed that age , was older now than Van Gogh , as he had , in the 1940s , realised that he was older than Keats . |
| 9 | The town , which been evacuated prior to the beginning of the war , was only lightly defended by allied troops . |
| 10 | As we know , the organisation of business er is n't their strong point at the moment , whether its been run ragged by their own rebels or clumsily breaking down the usual channels , seems our non-cooperation policy is merely an extension of the one that 's been working so effectively inside the Conservative party under the present Prime Minister . |
| 11 | mm , mm , were , were talking about what happens when people who have fallen in love get together and decide to stay together for a bit and its been suggested that marriage can put some strains on er what started off as a very heady mutual experience , if your lucky , let me ask you this , do you think marriage destroys love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , does marriage destroy love ? , as you understand it mm a few are not sure but thirty people have said yes , who said yes |
| 12 | I like this , its been proved that waiting list have gone down in the last six months |
| 13 | and for our team achievement is climbing from the bottom to the top of the North Stack in Anglesey … its not Everest … and its been climbed many times before but this is where you taste the true flavour of British mountaineering … |
| 14 | Had n't she been lost seven years ago , in the misty dawns and the drowsy afternoons ? |
| 15 | Had she been asked that minute what her exact feelings were , she might have said , I have done what I can for Andrée , if she 's going to blow cold again , if she does n't want to see me any more , vogue la galère , I shall have to survive , I shall . |
| 16 | Had she been expecting any apology , though , Fabia realised then that she would have been disappointed for , ‘ Hrm , ’ was all he grunted , and , handing the letter back , he scrutinised her with a hard look , and Fabia had the feeling that he thought that she was the one in the wrong ! |
| 17 | HAD SHE been born 10 years ago , baby Jessica Kelly would by now have spent most of her life in hospital . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you been given some ? ’ |
| 19 | Have you been watching that gardening programme ? |
| 20 | well because there was three of us we went , it was seven hundred and one , like , their go , first bloke got a hundred and eighty , next one got a hundred and forty , this one got a hundred and twenty and me and Matt got about forty each and Rick and we were stuffed just bit , have you been watching any of the darts ? dead interesting |
| 21 | Have you been screwing that |
| 22 | Have you been buying naughty things again Joelle ? |
| 23 | ‘ You been seeing much of him recently ? ’ |
| 24 | Have you been eating this cake ? |
| 25 | ‘ How many terms have you been training that cat , Mildred ? ’ said Miss Hardbroom . |
| 26 | And have you been taking that for quite a while ? |
| 27 | ‘ Hmm , ’ said Marcus , ‘ Have you been moving these pieces about when I was n't looking ? ’ |
| 28 | Have you , have you been getting any strange looks or have n't you noticed ? |
| 29 | Have you been filling that book in as you 've been erm |
| 30 | Have you been using that the whole day ? |