Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of devices recovered after the second tip-off had been hidden only a short distance from Shell offices at Hill of Rubislaw , sealed off after the morning bomb scare . |
| 2 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 3 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 4 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 5 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 6 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 7 | . You 'd you 'd probably come in the daytime , and you 'd find some of the tin 's been ripped off a bit , you might find a find a corner 's been ripped off . |
| 8 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 9 | By the way , this was the period when I could to a milk shop for a hape'orth of milk , but it 's not the halfpenny that people think now , cos the currency 's been altered quite a lot , it was very trifling , but it 's true . |
| 10 | Er this has been altered quite a lot since then , but you can still see the er gate that was er to the yard of the station . |
| 11 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 12 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 13 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 14 | The latter had been given only a month previously to John lord Dudley , and its transfer suggests that Gloucester 's role in Wales was still evolving . |
| 15 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 16 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 17 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 18 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 19 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 20 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 21 | That stuff 's only been dropped here a few days . |
| 22 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 23 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 24 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 25 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 26 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 27 | A few weeks later , the exportation of Jews from Minden in Westphalia provoked reported mixed reactions from the local population , ranging from sympathy for the Jews to outrightly nazified comments thanking the Führer for freeing the people of the plague of Jewish blood , claiming that had it been done half a century earlier the First World War would not have been necessary , and including rumours that the Führer wanted to hear by 15 January 1942 that there were no more Jews in Germany . |
| 28 | There had been windows on the westerly side of the school , but they appeared to have been built up a long time , judging from the appearance of the workmanship on the outside . |
| 29 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 30 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |