Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not everyone has been having a bad recession , and not everyone believes they must prune radically their investment and marketing budget . |
| 2 | We have been taking a lot of coal out these last few days , everyone has been putting the hours in . |
| 3 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 4 | If a pet cat has access to the garage where someone has been filling the car 's radiator system with antifreeze at the onset of winter , the animal may see a small puddle on the garage floor , where some has spilled . |
| 5 | ‘ Someone has been playing a stupid game with me . |
| 6 | ‘ The figures mean that someone has been defrauding the company and it was n't Craig Grenfell because if you look at the dates you 'll see that the fiddling went on even when Craig was in prison . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 8 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 9 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 10 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 11 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 12 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 13 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 14 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 15 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 16 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 17 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 18 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 19 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 20 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 21 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 22 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 23 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 25 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 26 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 27 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 28 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 29 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 30 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |