Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you 've been shit stirring . |
| 2 | You were wondering how long we 'd been lovers . |
| 3 | When I think how long we 've been friends … |
| 4 | If only we 'd been strangers |
| 5 | He speculated that perhaps it had been years , and he had simply forgotten . |
| 6 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 7 | So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock . |
| 8 | Lately it 's been Julian Schnabel time at Pace . |
| 9 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 10 | So far we have been self supporting with most of the folks who come along donating to our needs , however we would like to make a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Church who give us the use of their premises , gas and electricity free of charge . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've lost track of how long it is now we 've been neighbours . |
| 12 | Their mothers and sisters looked upon them in a new way , because until now they had been sons and brothers , but were from that day to be turned into men by the strictest mistress of all . |
| 13 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 14 | So for , for the first time the revolution is given an economic goal in that it is to set up industrialization and in a sense the ending of feudalism and the creation of industrialization emerge as , as the two forces whereas up until now it has been feudalism perhaps egalitarianism . |
| 15 | She should have been , would have been , indeed , originally it had been Cara and not her who had been going to make the trip to Czechoslovakia alone . |
| 16 | Latterly he has been director of the Actors ' Centre in London . |
| 17 | Sometimes it has been persecution or suppression . |
| 18 | He has been an Honorary Officer since holding the position of Honorary Treasurer for a year in 1984/85 and since then he has been Northern Ireland Special Representative . |
| 19 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 20 | On May 18 the Supreme Soviet in Azerbaijan elected Ayaz Niyaz ogly Mutalibov , the Azerbaijan Communist Party first secretary , to the post of President of the Republic , and Elmira Kafarova to the separate post of Chair of the Supreme Soviet ( previously she had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet Presidium ) . |
| 21 | Instead he 's been door knocking round the lanes of Leicestershire , discovering what it 's like ‘ immensely enjoyable ’ to push the political boulder uphill . |
| 22 | Yet it had been Eleanor who had started this war of words ; Eleanor who had tried to interfere in something that should have been none of her business . |
| 23 | Yet he had been Brearley 's choice to succeed him , for he had perceived that Botham was an intelligent , tactically aware player and believed that he offered ‘ tremendous hope for a new , vital start ’ . |
| 24 | Although Anne had always read voraciously it had been novels and poetry , or volumes of letters and diaries which were her particular favourites . |
| 25 | Time and again it has been cinema which has pushed forward the bounds of public acceptability of controversial images and ideas , to be followed by television rather slowly . |
| 26 | Previously he had been Chair of the Supreme Soviet Presidium . |
| 27 | Previously he 'd been president of Memorex' international group . |
| 28 | More recently he had been Polisario 's representative in Algiers . |