Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 2 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 3 | Nothing happens on the property in Kent — from which I conclude that our plans have either misfired or we have been seen through ( now there 's a possibility to douse even your ever-optimistic spirit ) and from you I hear nothing at all . |
| 4 | Either that or they 've been proved well |
| 5 | PENALTY : If an amount is shown in respect of a penalty or penalties being recovered under the bill and you have not previously been informed of the ground on which it has or they have been imposed , further particulars will be found in the information accompanying the bill . |
| 6 | Now when I came to see you , I think it were earlier on in the year and I 've been to see er the other doctors . |
| 7 | And I 've been looking after you since then . |
| 8 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 9 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 10 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 11 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 12 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 14 | And I 've been wanting to ask if they got a record o' that at Pulham St Mary . |
| 15 | It was a bitter summary of their unhappy affair , but compunction ensued , because it was n't Luke 's fault that he could n't love her , even if he had no right to despise her , so she added neutrally , ‘ There 's a Chinese tea-house or tea-garden — I 'm not sure what it 's really called — not far from here that intrigues me , and I 've been wanting to go and find out what it 's all about ever since I first passed it . |
| 16 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 19 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 20 | So I bought myself a bike , and I 've been popping backwards and forwards to my like |
| 21 | Damned if I could make out quite what 's going on and I 've been trying hard enough . ’ |
| 22 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 23 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 24 | And I 've been nagging my parents . |
| 25 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 26 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
| 27 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , 'cos Tizer 's the only one they have n't been doing diet , and I 've been getting really pissed off . |
| 29 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 30 | Well , I do 'appen to 'ave good legs , and I 've been complimented on me knees too . ’ |