Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [pron] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 3 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 4 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 5 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 6 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 7 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 8 | Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone . |
| 9 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |
| 10 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 11 | I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’ |
| 12 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |
| 13 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 15 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 16 | yes yes I 've been consulting him a bit about my Romans project |
| 17 | The Maxteds have been telling us a lot about you . ’ |