Example sentences of "been [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 2 | Its Committee for Art and Design , for most of that period under the Chairmanship of David Bethel , the Director of Leicester Polytechnic , has been pursuing the Council 's policy of achieving a balance between the main studies , on the one hand , and the history of art and design and complementary studies on the other . |
| 3 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 4 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 5 | On one occasion after they had been to see the film Odd Man Out , thick fog prevented Bobby returning home to Blackheath . |
| 6 | Two million people have been to see the film Jurassic Park since it was released in British cinemas just five days ago . |
| 7 | The aim , then , has been to see the problem afresh , and a first reformulation of it was offered in Chapter iii . |
| 8 | It is also likely that my friend will , at some point , have been to see the SUSA Welfare Officer and obtained help with a late grant , or received advice on one of a whole host of student problems from harassment to housing . |
| 9 | I 've been to see the magician said Tim . |
| 10 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 11 | ‘ You have been to see the corpse ? ’ she asked . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been to see the dog , ’ Anabelle replied , and told him about taking away the dog 's food . |
| 13 | He remembered the last time he had been to see the dentist . |
| 14 | Princess Anne has been to see the inmates at work … behind bars . |
| 15 | She had been to see the inspector in charge of her father 's murder case . |
| 16 | They tend to be the larger companies , I have to be fair , er , but er , one of the encouraging things from my point of view , and I , we started rather early , maybe fifteen , twenty years ago has been to see the growth of this particular sector , where people have moved progressively into , I think a much more enlightened posture in the last ten or fifteen years , and B I C , Business in the Community of course , have to take , I think much credit for that . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been to see the family ; I 've kept away until now … |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 19 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 20 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 21 | The man of the world was not as interested as he should have been ; I had become quicker in some respects , mostly practical , but the price for this had been to lose the ability to make other connections . |
| 22 | Thanks to specially-adapted boats many new people have been catching the sailing bug . |
| 23 | Henry , who comes from Litherland and is secretary of Repcon Strand A.C. , has been catching the bream on single yellow maggots and the tench on caster . |
| 24 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 25 | Ignoring Matilda , he turned to his son and said , ‘ I 'm always glad to buy a car when some fool has been crashing the gears so badly they 're all worn out and rattle like mad . |
| 26 | In cases where the lis had not yet been joined the applicant was less successful . |
| 27 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 28 | I have been elaborating the point , made much earlier on , that one of the really basic features of human thinking as it affects social action is the polarization of " we " versus " they " . |
| 29 | ‘ The second happiest moments of my life , ’ he said seriously , ‘ have been eating the Franz Joseph 's Matterhorn Torte . |
| 30 | This book , which might as easily have been entitled The Triumph of Realism , might equally have been subtitled The Return of the Native . |