Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 3 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 4 | This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped . |
| 5 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 6 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 7 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 8 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 9 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 10 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 11 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 12 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 13 | I have been keeping tropical fish for some twenty years , but for the last two months I have been cursed with a problem which I can not solve . |
| 14 | ‘ Many months I have been saving , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 16 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 17 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 18 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 19 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 20 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 21 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 22 | In fact in recent visits to schools I have been struck increasingly , not only by the ‘ over-age ’ children but by the considerable number of very young ones , conveniently parked in classrooms so that mothers could take employment , trade or visit . |
| 23 | ‘ How do you propose to raise the money when for the past months you 've been claiming that it just was n't possible ? ’ |
| 24 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 25 | They are a significant part of the dissident organizations we have been monitoring . |
| 26 | " It is our duty to help foreigners We have been watching you , and would like to help you . " |
| 27 | Over the past few months we 've been advising you to take all the hype about the death of the 386 with a generous pinch of salt . |
| 28 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 29 | FOR months we have been mesmerised by stories of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | Right or the other shapes we 've been talking about . |