Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adj] [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 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 4 | so er and I 've er been pursuing all sort of avenues . |
| 5 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 6 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 7 | I 've only been to see one game so far this season , so it 's difficult for me to judge , but maybe some of you who 've been more often could speculate ? |
| 8 | So you still have n't been to see this house in are you ? |
| 9 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In a lengthy communiqué , regarded by observers as a carefully crafted compromise between United States pressures to boost growth and German determination to control inflation , ministers observed that " forces that have been inhibiting economic activity in many countries are dissipating " . |
| 12 | My boyfriend and I are both 24 and have been seeing each other for three years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As you know , Piper , the staff at the Commando Camp have been accepting free board and lodgings at my Police Station for some time now , especially when they miss the last transport back to camp . ’ |
| 19 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 22 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 23 | Have you been eating this cake ? |
| 24 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 25 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | However , some canny high-yield managers have been targeting blue chip convertibles as a way of locking in income , limiting the short-term threat and yet keeping the door open to future capital appreciation . |
| 28 | Chances were that the shooting had n't even been heard this side of the block . |
| 29 | The traditional role of mother and baby units in psychiatry has been to treat acute postpartum mental illness without separating the mother from the infant . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |