Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has only been flown back a month ago from the near east . |
| 2 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 3 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 4 | . 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 . |
| 5 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 6 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 7 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 8 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 9 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 10 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 11 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 12 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 13 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 14 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 15 | This board of directors has just been spelling out the fact that we 're in big trouble ; we 're heavily in debt , we 're showing a … a net loss before taxation … we can barely afford this month 's wages bills , we ca n't meet half our orders … all that does n't just come blazing in overnight after an accident with the new singeing machine in the printing plant … ’ |
| 16 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 17 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 18 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 19 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 20 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 21 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 24 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 25 | Anyone could have been looking out the window seeing them being cheap with the teddy boy . |
| 26 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 27 | The Family Division of the High Court has jurisdiction to hear public law cases which have been transferred up the court system or issued at High Court level . |
| 28 | mm just been to pick up a chap you see for the dance , you know across the |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |