Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 32 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 33 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 34 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 35 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 36 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 37 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 38 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 39 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 40 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 41 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 42 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 43 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 44 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 45 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 46 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 47 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 49 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 50 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 51 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 52 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 53 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 54 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 55 | I had been given a week 's leave and so I hurried to Hastings as I felt sure that would be my last leave for some time . |
| 56 | I had been given a week in Sydney before sailing for New Zealand . |
| 57 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 58 | I had been given a very short time to assimilate the books of poetry and to write the review : a time-limit that would have been almost impossible for me to meet today , so much more sluggish has my mind become ; but I felt that if Eliot thought I could do the job , it was doubtless within my capacity . |
| 59 | But if I had been given the chance when I was younger I might easily have made a mistake and gone for good looks and he might have turned out to be Old Nick to live with . |
| 60 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |