Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been writing his latest book there . |
| 2 | By Jason Burt OLD soldier Bill Brownbill , 102 , has been granted his dearest wish a brand new bath with help from your ECHO . |
| 3 | OLD soldier Bill Brownbill , 102 , has been granted his dearest wish a new bath with help from your Echo . |
| 4 | Pauline Leyshon has been told her latest skin graft operation is imminent . |
| 5 | Today Mrs Wendy Rennie should have been celebrating her eldest son 's nineteenth birthday . |
| 6 | After disaster at Dongkhe , and the horrors of the Cocxa gorge , the French fortresses at Caobang , Langson and Laokay were abandoned but , in their retreat , the French had lost 6,000 men in what has been called their greatest colonial defeat since Montcalm had died at Quebec . |
| 7 | President Gorbachev 's been facing his worst Mayday parade and the first one not to be completely controlled by the communist party . |
| 8 | Her philosophy has always been to give her best to the job in hand : " If that is well done everyone will want you on their team . " |
| 9 | The men from Saatchi and Saatchi have been doing their best in the glossy mags with the slogan ‘ there 's a lot of Glasgoing on in 1990 ’ — but yesterday provided the taste of things to come in a city which has borne more than its fair share of music hall humour and Billy Connolly . |
| 10 | But here at Sophia Gardens , a nap hand of British girls have in their different ways been doing their best to tell us something about the game they play … and offering a few hints of hope for the future . |
| 11 | But here at Sophia Gardens , a nap hand of British girls have in their different ways been doing their best to tell us something about the game they play … and offering a few hints of hope for the future . |
| 12 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 13 | The LCD had been doing its best for the South Eastern Circuit . |
| 14 | It is widely assumed that the general , who has been doing his best to fan the speculation , will try to become prime minister after he leaves the army . |
| 15 | ‘ Since 1968 we 've been doing our best to piece the fragments into a satisfying whole . |
| 16 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 17 | The other approach has been to study our closest living relative , the chimpanzee . |
| 18 | ‘ I really have been trying my best — ’ |
| 19 | And , although I was instantaneously and utterly in love with you — and quite determined that we should marry as soon as possible — I have been trying my damnedest to keep some kind of control over my emotions . ’ |
| 20 | Spielberg had been shooting his latest epic , Jurassic Park , with Sir Richard Attenborough , Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum when 160mph winds and 20-foot waves hit the tourist paradise of Kauai . |