Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 2 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
| 3 | Off the pair of us dashed and so were our hopes as of course nothing had been left uncollected . |
| 4 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 5 | Tennis Courts Nothing has been heard from either the District Council nor the Tennis Club . |
| 6 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 7 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 8 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 9 | But the range and breadth of coverage I have been talking about can not be done within the existing confines of Radio 4 . |
| 10 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 11 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 12 | ‘ The difficulty I have is proving it . ’ |
| 13 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 14 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 15 | On an individual level I have been supported and validated by many lesbians of Afro-Caribbean and Indian sub-continent descent . |
| 16 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 17 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 18 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 20 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 21 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 22 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 23 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 24 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 25 | I entered into the spirit of the occasion by volunteering as one of about twenty stage guinea pigs , but within minutes I had been weeded out and sent back to my seat . |
| 26 | The only other experience I had was playing Essie in Shaw 's play The Devil 's Disciple at Leeds … |
| 27 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 28 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 29 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 30 | This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped . |