Example sentences of "be [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been pursuing me . |
| 2 | But I 've accepted it as fate that people are building me up to knock me down . |
| 3 | He has never been to see me . |
| 4 | And yes , the youth Diniz Vasquez has been to see me . |
| 5 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 6 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 7 | The police have been to see me . ’ |
| 8 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 9 | All sorts of people have been questioning me — the health and safety lot , the union , management — you name it , they 've been to see me . ’ |
| 10 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 11 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 12 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 13 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 14 | ‘ You are annoying me , young lady . ’ |
| 15 | At the time it was worth five shillings , no mean sum for a Gorbals kid , but had this promise been honoured I would not have parted with the note . |
| 16 | ‘ How kind , ’ she said , ‘ how kind people are trusting me with their keys . ’ |
| 17 | Did I do it for her or to release the frustration that 's been eating me since I left Deptford ? |
| 18 | But since he 's been up here , he 's been eating me out of house and home and he does n't pay for it |
| 19 | Most of my friends are thin , and sometimes I have this paranoiac feeling that they are using me . |
| 20 | words that yo people are using I 've got now , so I do n't even think of it , it 's just there and I just talk normal that 's the idea really and if anybody asks you what you 're doing , then you tell them and it and you say , if you do n't wish to be on it , well |
| 21 | I 'm happy to say I 'm going to marry the young man who has been courting me , Sergeant Troy . |
| 22 | He sent two screamers past Oxford keeper Paul Reece and declared : ‘ People have been slagging me off , saying I ca n't play and talking about my disciplinary problems . |
| 23 | My muscles are reminding me of this morning 's ride and the unaccustomed exercise … ’ |
| 24 | It was pleasant but had I been blindfolded I would not have been able to tell the difference from its cheaper , non-organic counterpart . |
| 25 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 26 | Far from ‘ letting me down ’ , the methods I had adopted from the Centre may well have been helping me . |
| 27 | She has very kindly been helping me with my research . ’ |
| 28 | David 's been helping me set up the I 've , I 've just bought myself a three eight six . |
| 29 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |
| 30 | ‘ You are accusing me of selling fakes ? ’ |