Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A WARNING has been given that some council buildings in Clwyd may have to close if maintenance is not carried out . |
| 2 | I take on the role of the mayor to ask — " What on earth has been causing all this damage ? " |
| 3 | One thing I think I know now , though — where she has been hiding all this time . |
| 4 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 5 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 6 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 7 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 8 | You could say it should have been allowed many more to establish itself , but it was not a notable success . |
| 9 | What intrigues me is that Mailer has spent years on it , has published almost 1,200 pages , is at work on part two and must have been doing all this while the Reagan/Bush/Casey/North epoch went rolling past a society and a mass media obsessed with Nancy 's wardrobe and the cultivation of the perfect junk-bond . |
| 10 | Predictably , perhaps , one eagle-eyed visitor to the Royal Photographic Society in Bath , where the sculpture is currently showing , rang up to complain that it was n't accurate , that the bowler could n't have been doing all those things . |
| 11 | ‘ I think he has enough talent to have been included many more times . |
| 12 | I asked him whether I was right in supposing that over the years British music had been influenced much more by the Continent than vice-versa . |
| 13 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 14 | But , of course , one had been doing all these things , ad nauseam . |
| 15 | What on earth they had been doing all this time before being consumed with their mad dreams of conquest I do not know . |
| 16 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 17 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 18 | In actual fact , Fabia had been wondering that selfsame thing herself . |
| 19 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 20 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 21 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 22 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 23 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 24 | I 've been doing all this that looks nice yes ? |
| 25 | Me , I 've been doing that all my life . ’ |
| 26 | So what they 've done is they 've picked a way of doing but they kept chopping and changing the way they 've been doing that all the time . |
| 27 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 28 | So long as you wait , I think you 've been doing this all day . |
| 29 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 30 | Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he 's said I 'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I 've been brought all these trolleys back . |