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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 9 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 12 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 13 | I may have been approaching it from the wrong angle . |
| 14 | ‘ I mean — have you been avoiding me like the very plague simply because of who I am ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 17 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 18 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 19 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 23 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 24 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 26 | When will the Department publish the review of the social fund , which we have long awaited , and when will he restore the right of the poorest in our society to a grant for essential items such as clothing , furniture and cookers , which have been denied them under the current system ? |
| 27 | If , however , he believes in the right to a free and independent trade union , let him grant that right to the employees at the Government communications headquarters , who have been denied it for the past eight years . |
| 28 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been chewing them for the past twenty minutes ! ’ |
| 30 | Coughlin says North 's only constructive contribution to Waite 's Lebanon mission had been to introduce him to an undercover agent working in Lebanon for British and American intelligence . |