Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [vb base] been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | FOR months we have been mesmerised by stories of the Battle of the Atlantic . |
| 8 | The water-proofed red notices warn drivers they have been reported and to get taxed at once or face a possible £1,000 fine . |
| 9 | The point also is that some , more than others , remember the sins they have been forgiven and are therefore more consciously grateful . |
| 10 | We have organised for every eventuality and the players feel comfortable with the roles they have been given . ’ |
| 11 | For two months they have been relegated to their school 's library , forbidden to attend classes or take part in any school activity . |
| 12 | Over the past few months they have been told that their primary and community health care is awful ; now the government tells them that accident and emergency departments will shut , along with 2000-odd hospital beds , when their immediate evidence is that it is hard to get into hospital . |
| 13 | In some countries HIS have been developed as part of strengthening health management ( SHM ) moves . |
| 14 | By his wounds you have been healed . |
| 15 | Mystics are certain that for brief periods they have been enabled to experience such perception and know themselves to be part of a meaningful whole — one with the way things ultimately are . |
| 16 | My my s young bones they 've been pulled down with carrying these er er all these pails of water . |
| 17 | In both cases you have been given an explicit and specific purpose and your notes should be deter-mined by this task . |
| 18 | But joy of joys , the New Moon in Scorpio on the 29th and some stunning planetary aspects in early November should spark off some kind of personal revival and no matter how many times you have been let down or left in the lurch in the past , emotionally this can and ought to be one of the happiest times you have ever known . |
| 19 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 20 | ‘ Why should n't I , when for the past four years I 've been allowed to say nothing at all ? ’ |
| 21 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 22 | For years we 've been told the Government is pledged to reach the UN aid target of 0.7 per cent . |
| 23 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 24 | ‘ In the last four years we have been asked to believe too many coincidences . |
| 25 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 26 | Additives : In recent years we have been made more aware of the danger of excessive artificial additives in our food and drink . |
| 27 | In the last few years we have been promised ( and in the UK have never actually been given ) ready-made video programmes on EVR , requiring one set of equipment , and on videodisc , requiring another . |
| 28 | These are a complexity of outcropping veins on which 17th Century miners worked but in places they have been modified by subsequent operators . |
| 29 | Over the years they have been inducted into the Maori nation in New Zealand , a rare honour , have packed soccer stadiums in Uruguay and Chile which make Wembley look like a park pitch and have successfully led the way for numerous reggae bands to grab a slice of the American popular music market . |
| 30 | These little shrubs are also known as ‘ hedgehog ’ hollies , and probably have been for all of the 300 years they have been grown in gardens . |