Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McDonough has just been handed his third suspension of the season following his sending off offence at Rochdale last weekend , and he is prepared to take a back seat for much of the rest of this season — if not all of it . |
| 2 | Many graduates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement period . |
| 3 | Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement . |
| 4 | Oxfam , the charity founded by an Oxford University professor and a Church of England vicar , has been marking its 50th anniversary . |
| 5 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 6 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 7 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 8 | From early this morning they 've been celebrating their seventh birthdays with cards , sweets and of course plenty of presents . |
| 9 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 10 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |
| 11 | Today he 's been celebrating his thirtieth birthday , but quietly , in his stable . |
| 12 | Gavin had been celebrating his first wage packet after being out of work for 9 months . |
| 13 | A village cricketer has been celebrating his seventieth birthday by opening the batting in a game . |
| 14 | Though she was passing through what has been called her first industrial revolution , there was as yet little to show for it in the landscape . |
| 15 | Here , though , was a mature artist , in her late fifties , who had been dubbed their first Associate Artist and one who was to be given a free run of the Gallery 's Permanent Collection to make transcriptions from the work of the Old Masters . |
| 16 | He 's been doing it last year on this foot mm , I think it was claw . |
| 17 | But by then Virgin and the Sex Pistols had been denied their first ever number one single . |
| 18 | ‘ Are you thinking about the fact that we might have been murdered ourselves last night ? ’ |