Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [verb] been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 2 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 3 | It 's stupid , I mean I 've been a driving instructor seventeen year , and I 'm not allowed to teach over here . |
| 4 | Yeah , well what I think he , I think he will emulsion over it cos I mean the ceiling 's a bit , as you say she 'd been a smoker |
| 5 | The claims of those commentators ( for example Meager , 1985 ; LRD , 1987 ) who suggest there has been a growth in temporary working in recent years are given no support whatsoever by these results . |
| 6 | ‘ You do n't know there 's been a crime , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 7 | I can always ring the house and let her know there 's been a change of plan . ’ |
| 8 | And how come there had been a scumnik kid present too in the crowd of possible recruits ? |
| 9 | But I say there 's been a |
| 10 | Travel agents say there 's been a last minute rush for holidays abroad … with the weather here looking distinctly dismal … |
| 11 | Local people say there 's been a long-standing campaign for the site to be made safe . |
| 12 | COMMUNITY workers say there has been a big increase in the number of young homeless people as winter sets in . |
| 13 | In most of the areas in which riots occurred there had been a breakdown in community/police relations ; the public distrusted the police and they had no confidence in the police complaints machinery . |
| 14 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 15 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 16 | At the time she had supposed it had been a reaction to his upbringing , all those years spent in his parents ' elegant Georgian house on the edge of a quiet , beautiful Sussex village . |
| 17 | … ‘ I expect it has been a while , yes . ’ |
| 18 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 19 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 20 | Having tried it here in our own studio and been most impressed , I have also spoken to JMP-1 converts Geoff Whitehorn and Phil Hilborne who say it 's been a godsend to their recording . |
| 21 | So he would be vague , and talk of the south , and say he had been a vagrant for many years . |
| 22 | Hire purchase had only relatively recently begun to blur what had been a fairly clear distinction between the highest interest which characterised the debts of the needy and the non-existent or low interest attached to other credit . |
| 23 | The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides . |
| 24 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 25 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 26 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 27 | His widow Diane says there 's been a terrible injustice . |
| 28 | The company in charge of marketing the farm says there 's been a lot of inquiries . |
| 29 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 30 | Bryan Gould , shadow Environment Secretary , says there has been a fivefold increase in planning applications for toxic waste incineration capacity . |