Example sentences of "[pers pn] been [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 2 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 3 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 4 | Jacob was still not the daughter she had set her heart on , but even though he was a male child he was , at least , physically recognisable as her offspring , and as he grew up he displayed artistic tendencies of a kind which she was sure could have flowered in her had she been given the chance . |
| 5 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 6 | And , in spite of the fact that she now knew a great deal more about the missing man , she still had no answer to the essential question : had she been examining the life of a victim of violent crime , or that of a murderer ? |
| 7 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 8 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 9 | ‘ You been watching the news ? ’ |
| 10 | Have you been to put a bet on ? |
| 11 | You will not need to take as many steps to conceal this as you would have had you been writing the blueprint book . |
| 12 | ‘ Have you been swapping the furniture around again ? ’ |
| 13 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 14 | The first question he shot at me after the midday adjournment was , ‘ Mr Kennedy , have you been discussing the case with your counsel during the luncheon break ? ’ |
| 15 | Leith was still blinking at him and his nerve when he went on , ‘ I know you wear a ‘ hands off ’ sign at the office … ’ well , that was something , she supposed ‘ … but how long have you been wearing a deerstalker ? ’ |
| 16 | Clearly it is of prime importance to know how and why this dramatic reversal of traditional attitudes has occurred , and to ask ourselves the question why our approval of democracy should be so automatic and unhesitating when , had we been born a century or so earlier , we would have been equally unhesitating in disclaiming any support for so dangerous and radical a notion . |
| 17 | Or have we been addressing the Chairman all along ? |
| 18 | Furthermore , many authorities , had they been given the option , would have chosen to spend more on services . |
| 19 | Had they been given the time , they 'd 've talked their faces off . |
| 20 | They had not given the details of the break-in a moment 's thought , so keen had they been to avoid the subject in the course of the evening . |
| 21 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 22 | Why had n't he been given a medal ? |
| 23 | The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance . |
| 24 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 25 | Had he been telling the truth ? |
| 26 | His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day . |
| 27 | Why had he been having an affair ? |
| 28 | At no point had any of us been told the procedure that would lead to us being selected to start our basic training . |