Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics . |
| 2 | Now several alternative notations are available , and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made . |
| 3 | Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’ |
| 4 | Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated . |
| 5 | Furthermore , nothing has yet been said about all the research that does not depend on the collection of data by the sociologist ( primary data ) but instead makes use of secondary data — the wealth of material already available from other sources , such as government statistics , personal diaries , newspapers , and other kinds of information . |
| 6 | " If nothing has yet been settled with regard to Ald. Hallam 's gift of a thousand pounds , it seems to me well worth considering whether it would not be more advantageous to the School to endow a " Hallam Lectureship in Natural Science " than to found a scholarship . |
| 7 | I know that nothing has ever been proved against the man , but you 've heard the rumours about how he tries to pressurise people . ’ |
| 8 | Studies of many thousands of people have shown that no-one has ever been infected through kissing . |
| 9 | Maybe someone has already been lined up , though the post has been advertised . |
| 10 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 11 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 13 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 14 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 15 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 16 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 17 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 18 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 19 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd previously been trained in management and I did n't want to be an audio typist . |
| 21 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 22 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 23 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 24 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 25 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 26 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 27 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 28 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 29 | Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top . |
| 30 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |