Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | Often whole sites have been filled which will inevitably result in expensive foundation design . |
| 3 | A woman 's been phoning your office every day : wants to speak to you . |
| 4 | Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else |
| 5 | Lucy 's been phoning you regularly , right ? ’ |
| 6 | By rights she should be sleeping the sleep of the just by now , she realised despondently as she switched on the bedside lamp — instead she 'd been reliving everything over and over in her mind . |
| 7 | If you have been dismissed you may be falling behind with mortgage payments , rent or other debts . |
| 8 | How easy it had been to mislead him , as he produced his apologetic arguments and justifications . |
| 9 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 10 | Her thin lip curled in a rare smile — one might say she had been pursuing her own studies . |
| 11 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 12 | She had been pursuing me . |
| 13 | Failing that I 'd settle for reincarnating as either Paul Raymond , Madonna 's fingers , Phil 's meat pie collection , Ian Osborne 's dentist ( not that he 's ever been to see one , mind you ! ) , a bar of soap in an all-girl boarding school or a big black cat named Thad ! |
| 14 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 15 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 16 | She 's supportable at home , but she can never remember that people have been to see her , so she 's always lonely . ’ |
| 17 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 18 | Though she had dined with Red Leland that evening and had seemed as pleased to meet him again as he had been to see her , though I had frequently brought up his name since my holiday started , each time she had immediately changed the subject . |
| 19 | She had said that Isobel had been to see her , and that she , Anna had been horrible to her . |
| 20 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 21 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 22 | ‘ And for all we know Ma might realise that she has n't been to see her . ’ |
| 23 | She told Anne that Aunt Carrie had been to see her . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't been to see her yet . |
| 25 | I 've been to see her as well as the other two women . |
| 26 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 27 | It was Lou — frantic , almost incoherent , reporting that Rick had vanished along with his passport , that the police had been to see her and had asked hundreds of questions . |
| 28 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 29 | Hundreds of people have been to see her . |
| 30 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |