Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 2 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 3 | " Just been watching you on the box — you have n't changed at all . |
| 4 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 5 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 6 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 7 | When I 've written to you in the past , it 's usually been to tell you about the developments of some of our long term programmes . |
| 8 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 9 | Rex had evidently been viewing him through the eyes of a Repo Man . |