Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 3 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 4 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 5 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 6 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 7 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 8 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 9 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 10 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 11 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 12 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 13 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 14 | I gathered from the locals here that Leeds have been given something around the 2,500 mark so I expect they will go quite quickly . |
| 15 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 16 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 17 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 18 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 19 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 20 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 21 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 22 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 23 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 24 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 25 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 26 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 27 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 29 | This suggested they had been attacked one at a time , and taken by surprise , which reinforced the verdict that two and not four men were involved . |
| 30 | From the times of the original Glasgow Harbour at the Broomielaw in the 1660s , the atmosphere of the Clydeside had been acquiring something of the West Indies , the South China Sea , the coasts of Africa and India , and all the magic , terror and richness of the seven seas of the world . |