Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’
2 I 've been using a Strat on and off for about five years , and we also hired in Telecasters , Rickenbacker 12-strings , all kinds of stuff .
3 ‘ I 've been using a Les Paul Gold Top for a long time — a ‘ 59 reissue with P-90s — but I 've got this unfortunate habit of getting pissed off onstage and tossing the odd guitar , so rather than risk the Gold Top any more I 've bought one of these new Hamers , which is styled after a '50s Les Paul Special .
4 You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’
5 Every day for the last month we 've been totting the Vortec back and forth to the local office , where it has been used to run an Alpha Four Database .
6 I 've been playing a Les Paul plugged straight into a Boogie Dual Rectifier , and this great ‘ 63 Telecaster I bought in Boston which might or might not be Ronnie Earl 's old guitar .
7 They look mostly the same breed of numbskulls who 've been mishandling the Allan Lamb case for a month .
8 They 've been promised a Dickens ' of a time .
9 ‘ The second happiest moments of my life , ’ he said seriously , ‘ have been eating the Franz Joseph 's Matterhorn Torte .
10 I have been sent a Leeds United 1993–94 squad picture from the Evening Post and this now adorns my office wall , much to the amusement of my colleagues .
11 French toddlers have been teaching a Middlesbrough sixth former who went to work in a nursery in France .
12 Health-seekers have been taking the Buxton waters since Roman times
13 Thames Valley police officers have been telling the Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke they need more people and resources to do the job .
14 I am disabled with arthritis and I have been given a Singer KE2400 , the green one .
15 Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration .
16 Thirty-two acres of the old Swanage quarries have been designated the Townsend Nature Reserve by the Dorset Naturalists ' Trust .
17 Fraud squad officers investigating the affairs of the late Robert Maxwell have been searching the Oxfordshire home of his son , Kevin .
18 And frogmen have been dragging the River Severn near Hardwicke looking for clues .
19 The Japanese community who live on the reef have been awarded the Peter Scott Merit Award in recognition of the 11 years they have spent fighting the development .
20 For the second year running Diss & District Branch have been awarded the Frank Larner Trophy for efficiency and a Wings Appeal £1,000 break award .
21 In addition , WGPT 's Permanent Downhole Readout product line has excellent potential for the Deepwater Gulf of Mexico , as evidenced by how quickly we have been awarded the Tahoe project contract by Shell in New Orleans ’ .
22 Dr. Peter Collett and Dr. Michael Argyle at the Department of Experimental Psychology , Oxford University , have been awarded an ESRC grant to study the problems that British businessmen and women experience in Europe .
23 PRO — proposed : Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an optional comment .
24 PRO — proposed Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an optional comment .
25 Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an appropriate comment .
26 For the past two years , the West Midlands police have been reinvestigating the Birmingham pub bombings , the results are soon to be sent to the crown prosecution service .
27 It is quite obvious that the government have been gearing the NHS up for this plan for some time .
28 Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict .
29 Ireland have been adopting a New Zealand type of pressure game , ushered in with the help of former All Black skipper Andy Lesie , and further enhanced by his close ally Willie Anderson .
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