Example sentences of "[pron] have be [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 2 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 3 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 4 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 5 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 6 | Now go and relax in your dressing-room for a little while — try a few of those deep-breathing exercises you 've been telling me about . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 8 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 9 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |
| 11 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 12 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 13 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 14 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 15 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 16 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 17 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 18 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 19 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 21 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 22 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |