Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
| 2 | Erm so maybe we could we 've been using sodium a lot try calcium because it 's interesting cos it 's got a double one a double positive negative is it ? |
| 3 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 4 | ‘ We hear you 've been selling Victor carthorses . |
| 5 | And er er sort of phone call one afternoon at half past four from the deputy , oh by the way , in fact if we had n't been talking to any Brummies on a we would 've been interviewing people and telling them that they 'd got a three year and these are all points that are gon na be brought up next week , but I do n't see there is any possibility of them doing an about turn because they 've gone public on it . |
| 6 | With a fit beginner and an obviously hard snow surface , an accomplished racer should sure have been teaching Annabel to use the ski edges throughout the turn . |
| 7 | Just as he would have been using Nicola Schreider , she reflected with sudden cold certainty . |
| 8 | Okay people could well have been using savings . |
| 9 | Second , they should have been using heroin regularly for a period of at least two years . |
| 10 | He could have been composing rubbish for all I was competent to judge , yet that possibility did not enter my head . |
| 11 | It jumped headfirst into the 1980s property boom and is now paying the price : the ebbing tide has revealed not only severe recession damage , but also gaping holes which should have been plugged years ago . |
| 12 | This type of analysis can be carried out for the whole country showing that there are a number of areas which are prominent in the consumption of the imported goods and which may have been developing centres of political and economic power ( Huggett forthcoming ) . |
| 13 | ‘ You must have been collecting antiques quite a while . ’ |
| 14 | Once all the information has been incorporated , the sequence of phases will have been assigned dates at various points , although these will be of differing quality : some may be accurate to a few years , others only to the nearest couple of centuries . |
| 15 | He might have been speaking Ursprache , for all that I understood . |
| 16 | No material was found , and the Home Office insisted that if it had been it would not have been made public . |
| 17 | The procedure is only available for proposed and not completed mergers and the merger proposal must have been made public . |
| 18 | The arguaments over the truth of the book and whether it should have been made public will rage for some time to come . |
| 19 | The shows may have been made aeons ago , but endless reruns have ensured kitsch classic status for information obsessives . |
| 20 | Had the Republican candidate in 1980 been an ideologue , he would have suffered the same fate as Barry Goldwater in 1964 ; if , by some fluke , he had been elected , he would have been denied cooperation by congress and would have been drummed out of office in 1984 . |
| 21 | Sometimes when the glass has been removed for cleaning and restoration it may have been reassembled back-to-front . |
| 22 | If this were correct , Aldfrith would probably have been born c . |
| 23 | Similarly , the Prayer Book published in 1559 described the baptized child as ‘ a member of Christ , the child of God , and an inheritor of the kingdom ’ , a form of words which seemed to discount the possibility that the infant might have been born reprobate . |
| 24 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 25 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 26 | He would have been supplying booze to restaurants and nightclubs . |
| 27 | Michael Green of Carlton may have won the London daily franchise from Thames and Andrew Quinn may have been appointed head of ITV 's scheduling , but they still have everything to prove . |
| 28 | Had the court been provided with the information that was necessary , he said , PW would not have been appointed receiver-manager because of ‘ the untenable conflict position ’ in which it had placed itself . |
| 29 | ‘ If we had gone out over two legs to Leeds and failed to reach the last eight of the European Cup , Rangers would have been branded failures . |
| 30 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |