Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 2 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 3 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 4 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 5 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 6 | You have n't been seeing him regular ? ’ |
| 7 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
| 8 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 9 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 10 | He said I bet it 's that that 's been , oh and then it jumped down and ran corner at g where ch caravan is , he said I bet that 's what 's been eating your bloody daffodil bulbs and that . |
| 11 | The HDZ government of Croatia had been building its own army : it had 35,000 police units of which 25,000 were in the reserves and 10,000 belong to special units . |
| 12 | The cider and wine company has been building its soft drinks portfolio with the acquisitions of the Piermont and Sorelle brands earlier this year . |
| 13 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 14 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 15 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 16 | It is capitalist , and everybody will , would 've been given their own land . |
| 17 | no I do n't like them at all he says , now my doctor had been given me this one |
| 18 | Modern science , which is commonly held to have been given its philosophical base by Descartes , has nearly always presupposed precisely this kind of dualistic contrast between objective matter and introspective mind . |
| 19 | Elvis 's vanity had been given its full and well-quiffed head . |
| 20 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 21 | He replaced the receiver , having been given his new instructions . |
| 22 | Another new boy , Nick Raynsford , has been given his own single room — an extremely prized possession , even among long-serving MPs — on the shadow cabinet corridor . |
| 23 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 25 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 26 | Could of been using me French |
| 27 | Helped by local artist Sian Parry , they have been using their artistic talents to brighten hoardings around the site of Llandudno 's £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex , with paintings inspired by the sea , fairy tales and the story of Alice in Wonderland . |
| 28 | They have been using their artistic talents to brighten up hoardings around the site of the resort 's new £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex . |
| 29 | ‘ Have you been using anything different from usual ? ’ she asked . |
| 30 | Police believe Mr McEvoy had been using his blue Ford Sierra car , registered D234 HAJ , on Saturday evening . |