Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The principal problem about them has generally been said to be that of their meaning or semantics .
2 Now several alternative notations are available , and no attempt to evaluate all of them has yet been made .
3 Neither of them has ever been cooped up in kennels . ’
4 Prince Jan Lubomirski , who managed to buy his castle of Kruszyna back from the local council for a symbolic zloty ( they refused Barbara Johnson 's offer of millions in a fine gesture of patriarchal loyalty ) , can not get the Lodz Museum to return the set of family portraits removed from it , even though none of them has ever been exhibited since being confiscated .
5 They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant .
6 To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’
7 I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’
8 By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone .
9 Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good .
10 Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the
11 I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen .
12 I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there .
13 The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see .
14 I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks .
15 I 'd previously been trained in management and I did n't want to be an audio typist .
16 I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had .
17 Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again .
18 ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking .
19 Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together .
20 I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who …
21 I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see .
22 I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence .
23 There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor .
24 Because , you know , I 'd never been skiing before , so I went out all togged up , with like , my tights sort of , like , you know , thermal tights and you know , pair of track suits , sort of bottoms , plus plastic overtop and then I had like , sort of thermal top on , plus the that 's a sort of like , T-shirt , plus the polo-neck plus a jumper , plus a sort of like erm , a sort of sheepskin waistcoat and , and jacket and then this plastic thing over the top .
25 Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’
26 I 'd never been asked to do anything like it before and it is a little eccentric .
27 No , I 'd never been given that option .
28 ‘ I wish I 'd never been born .
29 ‘ If they 've hurt a single nome they 'll wish I 'd never been born , ’ said Masklin .
30 I wish I 'd never been born ! ’
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