Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 2 | . You 'd you 'd probably come in the daytime , and you 'd find some of the tin 's been ripped off a bit , you might find a find a corner 's been ripped off . |
| 3 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 4 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 5 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 6 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 7 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 8 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 9 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 10 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 11 | According to the US PC Week personality gossip column , Motorola Inc staffers have been passing around a model of an Intel Corp Pentium chip complete with a miniature Three Mile Island nuclear cooling tower . |
| 12 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 13 | He 's been chucked out a lot recently has n't he ? |
| 14 | Yeah I was I had a shower , well , perhaps the water 's been turned down a bit . |
| 15 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 16 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 17 | And then when you 're okay when you 've been riding round a bit you take them off . |
| 18 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 19 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 20 | It may have been driven around a bit before it entered the water . |
| 21 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 22 | One had to forget — because one could not live with the thought — that this graceful , fragile , tender young woman with those eyes , that smile ( those gardens and snows in the background ) had been brought in a cattle car to an extermination camp and killed by an injection of phenol into the heart , into the gentle heart that one had heard beating under one 's lips in the dusk of the past . |
| 23 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 24 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 25 | so it 's been been tightened up a bit . |
| 26 | She was cautious , though , and Edouard , watching her , realised that his relationship with his mother was changing yet again-that it had , perhaps , been altering over a period of time . |
| 27 | Of course , I have been making up a lot of nonsense about machines getting in touch with one another . |
| 28 | Yet for almost 20 years a black-owned company , Writers and Readers , has been putting out a line of books in Britain and America , called ‘ the Beginners Series ’ , designed to tell black children and students about history , culture and famous people . |
| 29 | It is worth pointing out that Thameslink 2000 has been put back a year . |
| 30 | He should have been carrying out a test run but refused because the machine is blacked by the NCU . |