Example sentences of "have be [verb] me [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 2 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 3 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 4 | John suggests £10 — £15 has been allowed me for costumes . ’ |
| 5 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 6 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 7 | You seem to have been avoiding me since lunch . ’ |
| 8 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 12 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |