Example sentences of "[adj] and [pron] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 2 | We went to the er B M A or the G M C I 'm not quite sure which and asked if we could could approach er doctors for this and they 've been snapping our hands off ever since . |
| 3 | Reference has already been made to this and it has been emphasised that the requirement of a nominal monetary value is an arbitrary and illogical one which has been rejected in certain other common law jurisdictions . |
| 4 | And she say er this this and you 've been here er long time . |
| 5 | Whether the less common B II state actually exists in solution is not clear and it has been suggested that its appearance may be linked to crystal packing effects ( 3–5 ) . |
| 6 | They are most abundant in deposits about 400 million years old , but thereafter they become scarcer and none has been found in rocks younger than 70 million years . |
| 7 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 8 | I 'm 15 years old and I 've been with my current boyfriend for quite a while . |
| 9 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 10 | there 's a story here in the paper , I do n't know whether you 've read it about a little boy , ten weeks old and he 's been born with all his organs on the wrong side of his body |
| 11 | Let us take an example of someone who is now thirty-five years old and who has been somewhat overweight , say between 15 and 30 lb , for at least ten years . |
| 12 | Well they 've been very direct and they 've been having to make me think a lot about what I 'm doing . |
| 13 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 14 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 15 | Be bec , the appalling thing is that they 're quite , they 're quite happy to spread this pain on those who are in the least position to burden it and they believe quite rightly and this , this is the I think , that exists between socialism and and and the Conservatism in that sense that whereas erm , you know opinion surveys bear out the fact that people are quite happy , those who can afford it to pay a little bit extra in terms of direct taxation for those service provisions , which are absolutely vital and these surveys have been conducted in public and they have been made quite er er open to the press , er , just before the last election particularly for the health authority and so forth . |
| 16 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 17 | To date , the number of cases taken in this fashion are very few and there has been very little guidance from the Courts as to the ambit of the provision . |
| 18 | He was English and he had been very clever . |
| 19 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 20 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 21 | The council agreed that it is a matter for concern that the rates have increased by so much and I have been asked to write to Wyre Borough Council about this and to ask if they would consider paying the whole of the rates for public halls in rural areas as I understand some District Councils do . |
| 22 | The team is delighted and they 've been busy celebrating . |
| 23 | He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea . |
| 24 | Fully awake now , Polly lay absolutely still , her mind racing as she tried to work out what was real and what had been part of her dream . |
| 25 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 26 | I ca n't remember exactly when it was , but I know Oliver was tiny and you 'd been ill . ’ |
| 27 | However , the research findings have not always been consistent and there has been controversy over their significance . |
| 28 | He was only thirteen and he 'd been particularly close to his mother . |
| 29 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 30 | That is , how to give a child a knowledge of what has been accepted as right and what has been accepted as wrong , or , in other words , of good and evil ; and further , how this can be so well rooted in their minds that it produces in them an inclination to act automatically in accordance with what must be designated civilised behaviour . |