Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 2 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 3 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 4 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 5 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 6 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 8 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 9 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 10 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 11 | I have been doing some work for a national charity recently and the director and one of the key office-bearers can not stand sight or sound of SARAH , which was a trifle awkward when she rang up once or twice ‘ wanting to pop in for a chat at your new office ’ . |
| 12 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 13 | FOLLOWING the article by Warren Bagust on the raw deal David Gower has been given by the England selectors ( WCM Sept ) , I have been doing some research of my own on the relative merits of David Gower and Graham Gooch as batsmen and as captains of England . |
| 14 | I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it . |
| 15 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 16 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 17 | This consisted of a milk bottle filled with water to which had been added some lemon juice , and four rounds of Vienna bread , which should have contained beef , but it had run out . |
| 18 | Similarly , a child who has been receiving some form of individual help from a clinician , teacher or parent , might be expected to show the effects of that treatment and a comparison of changes over time on the basis of formal assessments would be an appropriate way of obtaining relevant information . |
| 19 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 20 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 21 | Carol , you 've been doing some research into women and education . |
| 22 | She had been widowed some time when we met . ’ |
| 23 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 24 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 25 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 26 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 27 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 28 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 29 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 30 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |