Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you say to me has been said only to me . |
| 2 | Although notice accounts are normally worthwhile , the return on them has been cut so much that there 's little reason for people to choose them over postal accounts . |
| 3 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 4 | The fish that used to feed them has been taken away to feed animals . |
| 5 | See I 've been spoilt really |
| 6 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 7 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 8 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 9 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 10 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 11 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 12 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 13 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 14 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 15 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And because I 'd been speaking slowly , my lip patterns were distorted . |
| 17 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 18 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 19 | I 'd been hit twice , I remembered . |
| 20 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 21 | er I went in the office and he said er I 'd been stood there about twenty minutes at the window and everybody was flitting around like a bee from flower to flower and they just left me stood there , so I never said anything , go on the back |
| 22 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 23 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 24 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 25 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 26 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 27 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 28 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 29 | However , I 'd been duped before … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |