Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 're trying to make them think you 've been coming in to see me ? |
| 2 | You 'll have to let them know you 've been called up . ’ |
| 3 | I declare it has been carried against . |
| 4 | I declare it 's been carried against and so we come back to deliverance number two as it is in the print . |
| 5 | you know , I mean they were so good when they came here but I mean they 've been shut in for months now ! |
| 6 | I mean they 've been doing that for half a century or more , only now it 's getting more and they ca n't . |
| 7 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |
| 8 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 9 | I mean it has been referred to that we might have to do them again , I sincerely hope we do n't have to go through this process again . |
| 10 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 11 | Erm , er I 'll I 'll close it at two , but perhaps I could ask the the applicants erm , I mean I appreciate that obviously erm it er it economy in in in obviously in what you 're doing , but I think it it it would be fairly obviously to , I mean it 's been stated that that that that residents nearby would prefer either two bungalows or a house and a bungalow , and I think er that certainly erm new developments adjacent to where you are proposing these are in fact all bungalows , er with the exception of the mill , which of course has been there a long time , er all those on that side of the road , both those two built and those two proposed are a bungalow or a semi bungalow , er and so erm you can see that obviously it is that the height of these buildings , it is erm causing the offence , largely , erm I I think , I mean obviously you will want to main you know , optimize your er development , but whether er a scheme with two bungalows that they would n't be four bedroomed bungalows , because there would n't be room for two of the four two four bedroomed bungalows , erm |
| 12 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 13 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 14 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 15 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 16 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 17 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 18 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 19 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 20 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 21 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 22 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 23 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 24 | Aye , he , I mean he 's been doing quite well , cos that 's George usually smoked you know ? |
| 25 | I mean he 's been known to do that because he you know what is going to happen with him commercially in his newspapers and he 's actually very clever and I mean none of us I mean okay and I think Peter might be the but I can get quite upset or intense or distressed or whatever the word is about that sort of stuff , because I am my background is journalism and I 'm quite pure about it , but we 're living in reality times here and the reality times is that he has got certain agendas . |
| 26 | But er I mean er she , she was in a perfect position to do it , I mean she 'd been retired a long time , she was in good health and obviously an annuity would be perfect for her er where it would n't be for a younger person , so I mean life annuities not got . |
| 27 | I mean she 's been living off what seventy three odd quid has she ? |
| 28 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 29 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 30 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |