Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , he said , last week the beleaguered Mr Major had found new friends in the SNP — which had for weeks been urging all-party opposition talks on the government of Scotland , but had been in secret negotiations with a Tory government . |
| 2 | In each case try to focus your mind on the part of your body that has in turn been made tense and relaxed . |
| 3 | But then , a few days later , Mervyn Stockwood revealed that he had all the time in fact been helping dissident priests in a variety of clandestine ways , still too secret to be fully detailed : not so much a Red Bishop as a clerical Scarlet Pimpernel . |
| 4 | After a period of time , the the people who have been abducted have in fact been released unharmed . |
| 5 | Olivier had in fact been making casual suggestions to Douglas as to how his role could be improved and Douglas , in awe of Olivier , allowed the knighted actor to write his own lines . |
| 6 | I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class . |