Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [vb base] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why the hell do you think I 've been holed up here since yesterday ? |
| 2 | I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former . |
| 3 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 4 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 5 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 6 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 7 | That 's right yes , as I say I 've been left back and I won very comfortable , but in the middle I 'm a lot more comfortable . |
| 8 | You 'll have to let them know you 've been called up . ’ |
| 9 | The Eighty-ninth Law of Dybbukry : Never , ever let your subject know you 've been thrown off balance . |
| 10 | If you 're crossing somebody out even if you er alter it and initial it , someone will know they 've been crossed out . |
| 11 | ‘ I expect they have been taken back to the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 12 | Went to ladies just before quarter to five to find they 've been removed . |
| 13 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 14 | The detailed plans were unveiled after a two year study , but local people say they 've been misled , and councillors say it would be an environmental disaster . |
| 15 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 16 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 17 | But hospital staff say they 've been vindicated by the inquest verdict . |
| 18 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 19 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 20 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 21 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 22 | Workers at a Grand Prix racing team which is facing receivership , say they 've been betrayed by their management . |
| 23 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 24 | Chelsea have not confirmed their approach to him and the Swindon board say they 've been told nothing . |
| 25 | RSPCA staff say they have been inundated with inquiries about the dogs at Sadberge kennels following an article in The Northern Echo . |
| 26 | Some have criminal convictions , all say they have been cautioned or warned by the police several times . |
| 27 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 28 | Kurds in Turkey say they have been tortured and repressed in a bloody campaign by the government to crack down on separatist guerrillas fighting for an independent Kurdistan . |
| 29 | ‘ The importance of Ord. 29 , r. 1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 and the serious consequences of a failure to observe it have been remarked upon in a number of decisions of this court . |
| 30 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |