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been English
Synonyms been synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as been?
Topics been topics
What do people use been to talk about?
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What words are used to describe the condition of clothes?
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What words indicate that something that never happens?
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anterior continuing: past action continues into the present: 'I have waited over an hour' ( = and I'm still waiting).
Examples been examples
How do I use been in a sentence?
Simple sentences
Where have you been?
You should have been more careful.
The number of Japanese going overseas has been increasing year by year.
It has been raining since Tuesday.
It was obvious that the driver had not been careful enough.
I've been waiting for you for over an hour.
Liz has been dead for eight years.
If I had been with you, I could have helped you.
If she had been a little more patient, she could have succeeded.
How long have you been waiting for the bus?
This is always the way it has been.
It's always been that way.
It's always been like that.
That has always been so.
What do you think I've been doing?
I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
It has been so long since I last went to Disneyland with my family.
The news article painted the defendant as a guilty man, even though he had been proven innocent.
You have been thinking about this problem the whole morning. Take a break; go eat lunch.
Perhaps you are right, I have been selfish.
Complete the following form to know who you could have been in a previous life.
I have been told that I am pragmatic, and I am.
I've been waiting for hours.
Movie subtitles
All the guys in my family and neighborhood have been drooling over her.
It seem like you like that girl. You must been embarrassed a bit.
It's been two weeks now.
Your section has been secured.
I thought that you might have been caught up in the chaos that person named Zero caused.
On top of me not even being aware, I have been acting extremely rude to you.
All conditions for this situation have been cleared.
When the intrepid Venetian Marco Polo had visited China in the 1 27 0s, he'd been astonished by the volume of traffic on the Yangtze.
But a visitor from Nanjing would scarcely have been impressed.
Along with Portugal, Spain had been first off the mark, seizing the initiative in the New World.
And what of the english, whose territorial ambitions had once extended no further than France and whose one big economic idea had been to sell wool to the italians?
Once, when Zheng He had sailed the high seas, China had been able to regard distant Europeans with indifference, if not contempt.
Now, if 30 years ago, you'd predicted that China's would be the second largest economy by 201 1 and the largest by 2030, I think you'd have been dismissed as a fantasist.
In the next episode of civilization, I'll ask why it was that the scientific revolution happened only in the West, and failed to take off even in those parts of the Eastern world that had once been pioneers of mathematics and astronomy.
Sorry, I'll have you accompany me in finishing it. No need. Your section has been secured.
And the idea was born. That he could collaborate With David Gill from the Cape Observatory to perform that huge task of measuring all the plates Gill had been collecting.
And at the Technical School at Delft, no engineers had been trained during the war.
That principle has been applied here.
In addition, several measurements had been done at each position, because the radio emission is weak and the receiver has quite some noise.
He processed his data in a similar way as had been done by us in our surveys.
We'd been fighting for 7 years.
I've been in the field for 3 years and I haven't killed a single Arab yet!
Your convent's been here over 200 years - and you don't speak Arabic?
These women have been raised to fulfill our every desire.
He's been with so many women.
Well, it's been nice working with you.
You guys have been tight since kindergarten.
Nick, my people have been patient long enough.
Nick has been ignoring me ever since we, um, you know. So I was starting to think he was kind of a jerk.
We've been worried sick.
You've been gone all night.
Be a long walk back, pal, we've been driving for nearly an hour.
Drugs deals have been financing dodgy US foreign policy for years.
You've been brilliant, Dad.
And has been since we set foot in Alvo's villa.
If it hadn't been for that fly, I'd have had my head blown off.
That could have been Scott up there.
Erica, how's life been for you since we met? Hmm.
As you can see, Scott, there's been some interesting developments lately.
News and current affairs
SAN FRANCISCO - It has never been easy to have a rational conversation about the value of gold.
Some have argued instead that gold's long upward march has been partly driven by the development of new financial instruments that make it easier to trade and speculate in gold.
Indeed, another critical fundamental factor that has been sustaining high gold prices might prove far more ephemeral than globalization.
PARIS - As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.
A different kind of revolution was taking place in Europe's former colonies in Asia, where native peoples had no desire to be ruled once more by Western powers, which had been so ignominiously defeated by Japan.
The extraordinary reception of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows how keenly the consequences of the collapse of the left have been felt.
Intelligence assets have been redirected.
Borders have been made more secure and societies more resilient.
Given that America benefits mightily from China's purchases of US government securities, it is difficult to understand why the US government and Congress have been complaining so much about the bilateral current-account deficit.
The good news is that, following President Hu Jintao's recent visit to Washington, both America and China have been taking positive steps to resolve their differences over the bilateral current-account balance.
Rarely has a small country been represented by a statesman of such world stature: only Thomas Masaryk and Jan Smuts come to mind to compare with him.
He could hardly have been held responsible for the hubris which led to the avalanche of 1973, yet it nonetheless brought him down as well.
Yet in all probability he would have been even more deeply disappointed in the inability of the Palestinians to come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state.
Officially, this has not yet been acknowledged.
That this Arab renaissance - to use the phrase of the great Palestinian scholar George Antonius - did not take place may have been Eban's greatest disappointment.
Eastern thinking, by contrast, has been abductive, moving from pragmatism to guessing the next steps.
The first hurdle has been overcome with the agreement on access to the enclave.
Moreover, measures have been implemented to push back, successfully, against terrorists.