Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [det] [pron] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's not very nice when you 're driving the vehicle and er I know you 're all experienced drivers and then you get somebody sitting there alongside you starting to look at you do , and I I you could 've been driving all your life but you still feel a bit edgy and a bit tense . |
| 2 | The price of this pragmatism has been to disappoint those who expected radical changes after Independence . |
| 3 | The impression has been given that they can not live independently in ordinary housing . |
| 4 | ‘ The impression has been given that it is easy to obtain a justices ’ licence and move into a public house , ’ he said . |
| 5 | But the storyteller has been using all his art to lead us up the garden path . |
| 6 | You give the impression of a man who has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Alexei has been diverting all his energy towards our venture . |
| 8 | No , he wrote , because Diana herself does not acknowledge either that she has been waiting all her life for him to appear . |
| 9 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 10 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 11 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 12 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 13 | Which was more than she could say for Uriah Colclough , a spare , already balding man in his mid-thirties who , having been torn all his life between a religious vocation and a natural Colclough desire to make money , lived like an industrialist but dressed like a vicar . |
| 14 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 15 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 16 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 17 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 18 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 19 | Lewis was more bitter since he felt — as so many of his contemporaries did — that he had been forced all his life to live in Eliot 's shadow . |
| 20 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 21 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 22 | He had the enviable but potentially inconvenient gift of making each visitor feel that he was the person Montini had been waiting all his life to talk to . |
| 23 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 24 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 25 | I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission . |
| 26 | He and Henry had been going all their grown-up lives to the British Transport Museum in Clapham , running their fingers over the polished wheels , regretting the end of brass fitments , and taking in the beauty of the fish-net luggage racks . |
| 27 | They had been dumping all their notes till then in landfill sites . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been ask all their sexual attitudes |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 30 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |