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Example sentences of "then [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	By then I had been released to the Toko-ru on my own recognisance , that is an abject willingness to betray my comrades and help the malais in every way .
2	Fifteen years were to pass before I had a book published by Faber 's , but by then I had been launched by other publishing houses .
3	I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work .
4	Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material .
5	‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began .
6	Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country
7	‘ The organiser asked me if I wanted to see how the money was spent and since then I 've been hooked . ’
8	Ever since then I 've been trying to get the speed back . ’
9	‘ No , but then I 've been thinking about the amniocentesis .
10	Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea .
11	‘ Since then I 've been training every day , and going on runs .
12	I 've had sickness , no I have n't had sickness , I 'm telling lies , I 've had diarrhoea and then I 've been constipated and then violent pains and terrible
13	Three weeks ago I found a lump in one of my breasts and since then I 've been paralysed with fear .
14	I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops .
15	If they do , then I 've been running them very inefficiently and incompetently .
16	I spent three months in the Canaries , and since then I 've been travelling between England and Ireland .
17	Since then I have been trying to gain recognition from Technics .
18	And he added , in a voice that would have done credit to an elder of the Wee Frees , ‘ If he is yer brother , then ye 've been committin' incest .
19	And then I said , then she 'd been bought a a hundred pound of leg waxing machine .
20	Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies .
21	Emma had a spell at a small , local Welsh school then she had been sent to one of London 's most exclusive girls ' preparatory schools , off Sloane Square .
22	Until then she had been tortured by fears that she might not recognise her son if she should see him .
23	Then she had been forced to leave when it was discovered that her real father was a white man .
24	Then she has been infantilised and she is no longer autonomous .
25	Mrs Banham said he was put on the operation waiting list in December last year , when the wait was about seven months , since then she has been told it could be 18 months .
26	I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards .
27	come on then we 've been waiting for you to come , come on
28	And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us .
29	But since then we have been given additional help with the cleaning , but the same hours .
30	So we can only concentrate our efforts and what we have been concentrating our efforts on is not turning any place into a nuclear dump , then we have been concentrating on our union 's policy which is the retention of all the facilities and job security for our members .