Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pages of magazines have been filled this year with the usual crop of controversies . |
| 2 | The sun , which had been hidden all day , broke through the cloud at the very moment that Bill fell tail first into a peat hole filled with boggy water and could n't get out . |
| 3 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 4 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 5 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 6 | When all the evidence has been examined each representative will sum up his particular point of view , with the Attorney General having the last word . |
| 7 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 8 | I was lucky to have my family 's support , and soon after , I met a really nice man at work ; we 've been seeing each other ever since . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 10 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 11 | We 've been seeing each other for two years now and , although we have n't set a date , we are planning to get married . ’ |
| 12 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 13 | It has equally been mooted that postmodernism in the aesthetic realm — and I have argued that such postmodernism first surfaced in the Surrealism and more generally in the historical avant-garde of the 1920s — has been an important condition of formation of poststructuralism in the human sciences ( Huyssen 1984 ; see above , Chapter Three ) . |
| 14 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 15 | Have you been eating this cake ? |
| 16 | ‘ The old inter-club rivalries and jealousies have undoubtedly been banished this season and it will be good for the tournament and for English rugby if we can win it , ’ said coach Keith Richardson . |
| 17 | Chances were that the shooting had n't even been heard this side of the block . |
| 18 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 19 | They have always been a club with potential , and that potential appears to have been realised this season . |
| 20 | He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon . |
| 21 | Webbe 's appearances for Bridgend have been limited this season and he has only five tries so far . |
| 22 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 23 | However , such a scheme would never wash with the public — who wants their water supplies to have been treated this way ? |
| 24 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
| 25 | Traditionally the records of these transactions have tended to be stored on parchment , vellum or paper and the job of the archive has been to preserve these information storage media . |
| 26 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 27 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 28 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 29 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 30 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |