Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [art] " 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 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
| 4 | He was told this had been to drive off an attack by the dog pack . |
| 5 | . 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 . |
| 6 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 7 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 12 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For example , on a second camera pass a projector was run along with the Discovery model to project action within the craft , seen at the windows , the windows having been blacked out the first time . |
| 16 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 17 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 ? ’ |
| 20 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 21 | 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 … ’ |
| 22 | because like when I see him , you know , and he has been sorted out a bit recently not really sorted |
| 23 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | A variety of cargoes , as diverse as Britain 's industries , has been carried on the inland waterways . |
| 27 | It is very difficult to do this satisfactorily ; the experienced reader can nearly always see where the joins have been made and , of course , for the student the exercise in beginning research has been carried out the wrong way round . |
| 28 | As soon as these orders had been carried out the prisoners started to leave . |
| 29 | Although some remedial work had been carried out the first major improvement was made in 1710 with the completion of a new stone pier . |
| 30 | The stricken coach now stands on the hard shoulder of the M two having been lifted up the embankment by a heavy crane . |