Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they wo n't go out on the streets until officers using them have been fully trained . |
| 2 | An alleged disadvantage of alliances is that they lock states to each other even after the circumstances which initially produced them have been fundamentally altered . |
| 3 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 4 | People will think I 've been terribly extravagant and I sha n't be able to defend myself . ’ |
| 5 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 6 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 7 | with all those redundancies a couple of months ago , I thought that 'll be it , I mean I 've been there |
| 8 | I thought — ; I mean , I supposed it was you Aunt Emily was waiting for , but she sent me out , she thinks I have been very silly over the whole affair — ’ |
| 9 | Do you know I 've been so busy , I done that van this morning , I 've done my housework and two loads of washing been over Petes ' did I tell you ? |
| 10 | I like to get on with it at home , but when I 've toured I 've been so desperate to do well , so conscious of not getting out , that I become negative . |
| 11 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 12 | The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall . |
| 13 | I 'll hide these rags away ; father 'll never know you 've been here . ’ |
| 14 | My long-suffering boss said the other day , ‘ pity you 've been poorly ever since you 've been fit ! ’ |
| 15 | I expect she 's been too busy to answer , he thought , what with the war and everything . |
| 16 | ‘ I expect you 've been too busy . ’ |
| 17 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |
| 18 | By the time Chloe was rescued she 'd been horribly burned . |
| 19 | I am delighted to find you have been so successful in your Expedition : I heartily pray you may continue so to the end and safely return to Old England : I am much pleased too at hearing your health has not been affected in the slightest degree : pray be careful and never forget that upon your safety , hinges the welfare of numbers . ’ |
| 20 | And er two very special guests to meet who 've been here often before and they 're always very welcome . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's none of our business , ’ said Sam , ‘ and if we go round wiping her tapes , she 'll know we 've been here . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ No one must know we have been here , my friend , especially Major Berger . ’ |
| 23 | When benefits have been claimed they have been small compared with the resources employed . |
| 24 | as if they did n't even want anyone to know they 'd been inside . ’ |
| 25 | But today , angry customers like Banbury businessman , Michael Cratchley , who forked out £4,000 for a holiday in France , say they 've been badly let down . |
| 26 | Most of the airmen and women fly home in January but some say they have been here so long that this is their home , they 'll be staying in England . |
| 27 | He must have wished he had been there , protected by the Pinkerton security guards employed here , earlier in the week when a messenger arrived at the course to serve a paternity suit . |
| 28 | Erm , this whole area of learning theory is a very traditional area but it has it has been very influential actually very recently , despite being very ancient . |
| 29 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 30 | Since the time of Tsao Ch'un it had been so . |