Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been annoying the Dasses . |
| 2 | They 're being sold by an enthusiast who 'd been collecting the models since he was a boy . |
| 3 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 4 | They 'd been watching the premises for several months . |
| 5 | He 'd been counting the days . |
| 6 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 7 | The priest , with folded hands and closed eyes , recited Grace , and the meal began : soup served by a daughter of the same sister of Rose 's who had been taking the photos ; chicken and ham , with salad . |
| 8 | Allison was among many who were convinced that the Welshman had been denied the 60metres hurdles crown because the race starter , Toronto property manager Ron Bell , had let local hero Mark McKoy get away with a ‘ flyer ’ . |
| 9 | In Switzerland , which had 36,000 political asylum requests in 1990 ( and 17 per cent of whose residents were non-nationals ) , the government had been tightening the rules since February 1991 . |
| 10 | The Court of Appeal detected " underlying transactions of a solicitorial nature " and determined that on the expert evidence ( inter alia from a former President of the Law Society ) which had been presented the undertakings given were such as might come within the usual course of a solicitor 's business . |
| 11 | Once enough money had been raised the bells were taken to the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London — where one of them was originally cast . |
| 12 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 13 | It was now three in the afternoon , and the offensive odour had been plaguing the neighbours since 10.30 in the morning . |
| 14 | The ghillies had been gathering the herds into the area for days . |
| 15 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 16 | In the two days since the men had been gone the girls had become close friends , beginning from the moment Joanna had knocked timidly on the solar door soon after Guy had left . |
| 17 | Five of the nine practices had been collecting the types of data required by the regional health authority for several years , and all of the practices had computer systems in operation before the preparation period . |
| 18 | She had been descending the stairs when she 'd slipped and had fallen down numerous steps . |
| 19 | Sullivan later claimed that he had been given no instructions on this point . |
| 20 | Lord Derby complained that he had been given no warnings . |
| 21 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 22 | Whoever had lived here had been given the remnants of used candles and had melted the stubs down to make a crude light . |
| 23 | The rooks and crows which lived in the decaying stumps of the castle 's high towers could talk ; they had been given the voices of Quiss and Ajayi 's respective rivals , unfaithful lovers and hated superiors . |
| 24 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 25 | While Charles had been summoning the clans to Glenfillan Sir John Cope , 100 miles [ 160 km ] away , as the crow flew , in Edinburgh — though far further even by Wade 's splendid new roads — had been making his counter-preparations . |
| 26 | For example , by the time the Mekong had been drained the excavations were comparable to the construction of the Panama canal and in the sixty years before the Second World War there were 4½ m. acres of new land brought into cultivation and correspondingly prodigious increases in the exports of rice . |
| 27 | Once the check-outs had been completed the pilots and planes moved to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego where they were put aboard the USS Yorktown for the carrier filming . |
| 28 | Next-door neighbour Jean Beveridge , who had been given a running commentary by armed police inside her home , revealed the gunman had been daring the police to shoot him . |
| 29 | Tillett was convinced that despite its attempts to mediate , the government had been helping the employers . |
| 30 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |