Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 3 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 4 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 5 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 6 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 7 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 10 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 11 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 12 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 13 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been primed with stolen cash from a post-office raid set up to finance your old man 's own version of early day closing at the nick . |
| 15 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 16 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 17 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 18 | I have been reassured on countless occasions that a hypnotist can not make me do anything against my will . |
| 19 | Like most therapists , I have been inspired by countless different sources — from metaphysics to Buddhism , from object relations theory to Jung , from Gestalt therapy to psychosynthesis , from mysticism to shamanism . |
| 20 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 21 | If , deep within me , I have been persuaded by early upbringing that sex is evil — or if traumatic experience evokes that feeling — sexuality can never carry its true attraction or satisfaction . |
| 22 | As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years . |
| 23 | For over thirty years , along with my fellow teachers , I have been going to educational conferences , and training sessions , and workshops , to hear countless leaders in education talk , as you do , about the dignity of the child , and the importance of individual differences , and of fostering positive self-concepts , and building on the interests of the child , and letting the child learn from curiosity rather than fear . |
| 24 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 25 | I have been told by fellow enthusiasts that the original 2.6 litre petrol engine was a very thirsty unit and they suggest that I should install either a diesel unit or a V6 petrol . |
| 26 | I have been told by Social Security would let me er excuse me talking to me . |
| 27 | I have been told by well-meaning friends that I have a touch of fever … well , so be it ! |
| 28 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 29 | Mr Kilfoyle said : ‘ I have been told by senior Home Office ministers that we have powerful friends on our side in the form of the Government 's latest round of expenditure cuts . |
| 30 | As it is , I have been forced into positive action , into vitality and life . ’ |