Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] been [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 3 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been admiring your little house . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 6 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 7 | ‘ I have been moving my portable clinic from one place to another , but now I like it here . |
| 8 | You 've been twisted something rotten , |
| 9 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
| 10 | You can renew your loan at any time providing you 've been meeting your regular repayments . |
| 11 | You 've been driving me crazy , but now I 'm going to have your body , and if it 's the last time then so be it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
| 13 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 14 | ‘ I take it you 've been attending your local ante-natal clinic regularly ? ’ |
| 15 | Oh perhaps you 've been saying what other |
| 16 | Now let it rub off on greedy directors of other companies , especially those recently privatised , who have been giving themselves huge rises while keeping down workers ' pay . |
| 17 | I trust that you have been reading my peerless prose this lovely morning . ’ |
| 18 | And if I hear so much as a whisper that you have been broadcasting our private affairs around the country … ’ |
| 19 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
| 20 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 21 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been told your entire street has gone , ’ he sighed . |
| 23 | In this section we have been considering their respective accounts of structural change . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ We have been offered nothing tangible . |
| 25 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 26 | Helped by local artist Sian Parry , they have been using their artistic talents to brighten hoardings around the site of Llandudno 's £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex , with paintings inspired by the sea , fairy tales and the story of Alice in Wonderland . |
| 27 | They have been using their artistic talents to brighten up hoardings around the site of the resort 's new £4m arts , leisure and convention centre complex . |
| 28 | Perhaps they have been finding our simulated version of you know , to be there early , and to be there late , and sometimes be there Saturday and Sunday as well . |