Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 2 | I see me I 've been coming off my and she turned round and says , No . |
| 3 | The trouble is my boyfriend , with whom I have been living for six months , thinks I should use the money to pay off our overdraft . |
| 4 | ‘ I am dependent on people with whom I have been associated in the past inviting me and I must say they could not have been more gracious . ’ |
| 5 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
| 6 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 7 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 8 | ‘ This is someone I 've been longing for you to meet . |
| 9 | Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . |
| 10 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 11 | His sister , Linda Lee , who called at the house , said her children were talking about someone who had been killed on the railway line . |
| 12 | She looked like someone who had been struck without warning but she did not try to run or cry out . |
| 13 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 14 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |
| 15 | Cardiff was still one of the bastards who had put him away , not someone who had been duped by a fellow officer with false evidence , certainly not someone he had come to respect . |
| 16 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 17 | And as for the delay in writing , do n't you have any idea how time-consuming it is , looking after someone who 's been paralysed by a stroke ? ’ |
| 18 | I find his thesis correct in general , but should like to add that the corruption which amounts to violence is likely to be suppressed in someone who has been trained to be a good little girl and can , as one of his own case histories demonstrates , express itself in other , less overt , terms . |
| 19 | If someone else is living in your home , for example someone who has been caring for you , this may also mean the value is not taken into account . |
| 20 | The first came from a man in the front row , a crumpled , resilient-looking individual with the look of someone who has been dropped on his head from a great height at some stage in his life . |
| 21 | my Lord I , I think it takes the view and probably not unreasonably that assuming good faith on the part of the disciplinary tribunal and assuming that there is er review by the courts , you will have complete objectivity and someone who has been excluded for a good reason , maybe fraud or something of that nature should not be competing in the first place , but he will not be excluded unreasonably and therefore if he was excluded unreasonably erm the fact of he 's exclusion could be anti competitive because it takes out of the market a player |
| 22 | ‘ I know someone who has been put off three times for an appointment in ophthalmology . ’ |
| 23 | It is not a good idea simply to rely on advertisements in the local paper but far better to go to someone who has been recommended to you by a friend who has been successfully treated . |
| 24 | A thrill went through Alice , as when someone who has been talking for a lifetime about unicorns suddenly glimpses one . |
| 25 | As someone who has been admitted into psychiatric care 16 times in the past 25 years and has usually received acute care in asylum style settings , I shed few tears for the disappearance of these places . |
| 26 | Some parents may face disappointment when they find that their child is to marry someone who has been married before and already has children . |
| 27 | A not-so-good euphemism for someone who has tried to do him/herself in by hurling him/herself beneath a moving tube train , or someone who has been jostled from a congested platform on to the track , or some kicky kid indulging in Tube surfing-travelling outside the train and hanging on , and falling off , like John Koporo , age 11 , who in 1987 at Kilburn became the sport 's first victim . |
| 28 | Er I what 's been said about the report and I think it identifies the main issues . |
| 29 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 30 | Further , representatives of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board have had access to a large quantity of files in [ that state ] and copies of certain of them which have been returned to London , and among these files is documentation concerning the affairs of your clients . |