Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 4 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 6 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 7 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 8 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 9 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 10 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 11 | The BBC 's film review programme is 21 years old today — and Barry , 59 , has been presenting it for the last 20 . |
| 12 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 13 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 14 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 15 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 16 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 17 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 18 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 19 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 20 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 21 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 22 | But I 've not been taking them for the last week . |
| 23 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 24 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 25 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 26 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 27 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 28 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 29 | I have been telling them about the different sensitivity which Asian women have to their babies and the fact that you ca n't just go up to an Asian woman with the diet leaflet and say you should be giving your baby Cod Liver Oil , because 90 per cent of Asians in Wandsworth are vegetarians . |
| 30 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |