Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 2 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 3 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 4 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 5 | Once it has been established what the relevant scope of the employer 's business is , the next question is whether the restriction does no more than protect any existing customer connection . |
| 6 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 7 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 8 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 9 | All I can do is offer you a little advice . |
| 10 | The least he can do is buy us a decent lunch . ’ |
| 11 | The best I can do is to offer you a free ¼ page advert , but I must have all the details in the next 48 hours . |
| 12 | He said he 'd noticed that our Mini was getting a bit down at heel , and in the light of Ken 's injuries he thought the least he could do was to give me a better means of transport . |
| 13 | The reason I say it 's , it 's , the system 's too old to go back to the Japs and say get this sorted out , rewrite the software because they 're just gon na say not likely we have n't made it for ten years , or whatever seven or eight years or whatever it is , it 's out of date , they 're not gon na start working on the system that 's that old all they 'll want to do is to sell you a new one |
| 14 | He told Took about a consultation he had had with a doctor , who told him : ‘ What you ought to do is to get yourself a retired petty officer to look after you . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I thought all I had to do was get you a valid passport and we 'd be safe . ’ |
| 16 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 17 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 18 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 19 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 20 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 21 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 22 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 23 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 24 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 26 | I know I 've been a bit stupid , but I 'm trying to get my act together and all Luke-do-it-all-Denner does is give me a hard time ! |
| 27 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 28 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |
| 29 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |