Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
2 | ‘ Sergeant , ’ said Alice , ‘ had someone been phoning Mary ? |
3 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
4 | Men have been pursuing North Uist sea-trout for hundreds of years and the island is rich in sites of archaeological interest ; brilliantly described by Dr Erskine Beveridge in his definitive book , North Uist : its Archaeology and Topography , published in 1911 . |
5 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
6 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
7 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
8 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
9 | ‘ I guess that you have been to see Mrs Laura Lyons , ’ he said , and when I told him that he was right , he went on : ‘ When we put together everything that each of us has discovered , I expect we shall know almost everything about this case . ’ |
10 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
11 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
12 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
13 | We 've just been to see Jean there at the chippy . |
14 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
15 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
16 | Again they looked at each other in silence , and then he said very slowly , ‘ I 've been to see Beecham and Holden . |
17 | And then erm we ai n't even been to see Barbara and her and her new house and they only live |
18 | ‘ Well , if you 're sure you 're not suffering from any after-effects from the accident , I wo n't keep you any longer , ’ said Rachel with a brief smile , then as Jimmy stood up to leave she said casually , ‘ By the way , have you been to see Len ? ’ |
19 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
20 | Well , I 've been to see Mr , and then I was off again to see him , and he said I was right . |
21 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
22 | ‘ Been seeing Rose Hilaire ? ’ |
23 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
24 | ‘ He 's been seeing Jessie and ’ — she bowed her head — ‘ she 's going to have a baby . ’ |
25 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
26 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
27 | ‘ She has been seeing James recently but she still loves Marco , ’ said Mrs Butcher . |
28 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
29 | Joanne Morse , 18 , had been seeing Osborne weeks before the killing . |
30 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |