Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [conj] then " in BNC.
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| 1 | Actually it 's easier once you 've been done cos then you have an appreciation of what 's |
| 2 | I 've had sickness , no I have n't had sickness , I 'm telling lies , I 've had diarrhoea and then I 've been constipated and then violent pains and terrible |
| 3 | Although this is hardly the headhunter 's fault , the candidate will naturally feel annoyance or even anger that his or her expectations have been raised and then dashed , often without much explanation . |
| 4 | As a result , reforms like school boards and compulsory testing for primary school pupils — which would have been unlikely to survive unscathed in the more consensual days of previous Tory administrations — have been implemented and then decisively rejected by the public . |
| 5 | Both carburettors have been overhauled and then ret up on a crypton machine . |
| 6 | Chapter 4 briefly reviewed various management techniques that have been tried and then abandoned by government . |
| 7 | Mr Stephen , MP for Shoreham , Kent , said : ‘ Our constituents are seriously concerned about offences which are being committed by people who have been arrested and then released on bail by magistrates . ’ |
| 8 | Various management techniques have been introduced and then abandoned . |