Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 2 | I 've been reading a copy of the above document and I must say I am very disturbed by its proposals , and disappointed at the negative attitude it conveys . |
| 3 | ‘ When one thinks of the number of miserably displaced children from broken homes who 've been given a sense of purpose by the Pony Club ’ Sukey was saying , then , lowering her voice , ‘ take Perdita Macleod . |
| 4 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 5 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been getting a lot of flak about fighting in Spain and I did n't want Anne to get any . |
| 7 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been making a meal of me with your eyes all evening ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been making a lot of noise ’ , the mining man is alleged to have said . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been doing a bit of reading , ’ ventures Naomi . |
| 12 | February 18 — now that the risk of death is so much more increased I 've been doing a spot of philosophising . |
| 13 | Well , he has n't actually collected any in and I 've been doing a lot of work at home for it , you know , masses . |
| 14 | I 've been doing a lot of that lately . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been doing a lot of reading , ’ she said . |
| 16 | You know , maybe we pick someone from groups who 've been doing a lot of good work lately , perhaps or something or you know some something like that , just er so they 're not left out the frame |
| 17 | Because I 've been keeping a record of everything that 's been happening for you , you know , so you wo n't have missed anything . ’ |
| 18 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 19 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 20 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 21 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 22 | you know , if they want the first day , then there gon na have to do another lot so what 's the point of sort of yourself out with fucking , I was n't really sure at the time that I wanted to go to so , you know , I , I said no I needed this job , but probably a bad I 've been offered a couple of month one 's as well , one month and two month 's , but I mean the trouble is |
| 23 | I 've been offered a lot of commissions but I have n't done any for two years . |
| 24 | I 've been investigating a series of murders in London . |