Example sentences of "been [verb] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 2 | ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ? |
| 3 | But erm I mean th th the debate yesterday was , was as , as budget issues always are I mean when you 're talking about budget no matter , even in boom years you 're always still talking oh we have n't got enough money erm but it was positive in the sense that it was A we 're coming off the back of some good performance , and that 's important to remember , and all I 'm saying is there 's no reason why we should n't be able to maintain our performance , even if we ca n't improve it in the next two or three months erm from , to where we actually think we should have been given that the systems come in last year . |
| 4 | Finally , it should be pointed out that one of the grounds on which under section 432 the Secretary of State may appoint inspectors to investigate and report on the affairs of a company is that ‘ the company 's members have not been given all the information with respect to its affairs which they might reasonably expect ’ — whether or not that information is such that they have an express statutory right to be told it . |
| 5 | When her brother had looked likely to become a chip off the old block , he 'd been given all the support of a loving father intent on realising his own dreams through his son . |
| 6 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 7 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 8 | Have you been using that the whole day ? |
| 9 | A police Rover had been parked half-on the pavement , along with a couple of officers ' cars . |
| 10 | Then of course it seemed to have been predetermined all the time . |
| 11 | In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain . |
| 12 | There are no easy answers but If you have not already been applying all the techniques listed in this book when applying for jobs you should find that a methodical approach is more productive than previous haphazard applications . |
| 13 | Who 's been tooling all the parts ? |
| 14 | They were too far away for her to recognise faces , but she could imagine John and Angela among them , unaware that they had been pursued all the way from Romania . |
| 15 | It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly . |
| 16 | It 's only once all these preparations have been done that the family concentrate on decorating their own home . |
| 17 | But a heroic act of rescue , splendidly documented , has been done all the same . |
| 18 | That support is available in the Scottish Office and has been tried and tested in the work that has been done supporting the central institutions . |
| 19 | A spokesman for the National Grid Company said : ‘ We have recently been made aware the Department of Transport is objecting . |
| 20 | It is widely believed that if Labour 's national executive had acted on his report in the mid-1970s about the need to root out Militant Tendency from within the party , then the movement would have been saved all the subsequent turmoil in the 1980s , by which time Militant had gained a grip . |
| 21 | One approach to the problem has been to list all the various kinds of non-business organizations , pointing out their political , economic , and social differences , and then build the accounting theories from there . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I 've been told all the stories about how my dad used to stand in the Steering Wheel Club with half a pint of lager just waiting to talk to people and to worm his way into Formula One . |
| 23 | It was difficult , even though she had been told all the problems of Gesner , to continue to hold oneself together in the face of such blatant hatred . |
| 24 | ‘ Been waiting all the morning for a bit of attention from my only daughter , not much for a sick mother to ask , is it ? ’ |
| 25 | They have been handed all the debt recovery work of Westminster City Council in one of the biggest steps by a local authority in the contracting out process . |
| 26 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 27 | erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee . |
| 28 | But this time the door had been closed all the way , and she could n't make out what was being said . |
| 29 | He told a news conference at the club 's White Hart Lane ground : ‘ I 've been threatened , spat on , chased after and have been called all the names under the sun . |
| 30 | He thinks , by the sheer fact of not playing on something , his contribution has been to leave all the space for everybody else . |