Example sentences of "[pron] been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 2 | ‘ I been having a little think , ’ said Ron Paget . |
| 3 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 4 | After Hackman 's departure , Dustin felt even more insecure , remembering that he had himself been fired a few times for not satisfying the director . |
| 5 | On 10 May 1794 , Huntingford wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons ( who had himself been elected a vice-president of the College ) as follows : ‘ Honble Sir , I should not have taken the liberty of troubling you on the subject of the Veterinary College did not the recent business of Wm Stone who stands charged with High Treason prove the cause of his exerting himself to my prejudice in favor of M Vial the late Professor , to be that he might establish a French Connection in that Institution in order that he might through the channel carry on his correspondence with the enemy . |
| 6 | ‘ Somebody been nicking the family silver , 'ave they ? ’ |
| 7 | In 1992 its been called a disgrace , even a ghetto . |
| 8 | Had n't she been watching the models for weeks and dying for a chance to imitate them ? |
| 9 | Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs . |
| 10 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 11 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 12 | Jacob was still not the daughter she had set her heart on , but even though he was a male child he was , at least , physically recognisable as her offspring , and as he grew up he displayed artistic tendencies of a kind which she was sure could have flowered in her had she been given the chance . |
| 13 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 14 | And , in spite of the fact that she now knew a great deal more about the missing man , she still had no answer to the essential question : had she been examining the life of a victim of violent crime , or that of a murderer ? |
| 15 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 16 | Had she been making a genuine decision to refuse the treatment , it would be necessary in a case such as this to find out if the patient had received any advice as to the consequences of a refusal to accept treatment . |
| 17 | He was not reassured by hearing Bruce Davidson in the passage cheerily observing to Catherine that she was looking a bittie pale ; was it just the London air , or had she been burning the candle at both ends ? |
| 18 | ‘ You been watching the news ? ’ |
| 19 | Have you been buying the whole store ? ’ |
| 20 | Have you been to put a bet on ? |
| 21 | You will not need to take as many steps to conceal this as you would have had you been writing the blueprint book . |
| 22 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 23 | ‘ Have you been swapping the furniture around again ? ’ |
| 24 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 25 | The first question he shot at me after the midday adjournment was , ‘ Mr Kennedy , have you been discussing the case with your counsel during the luncheon break ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Have you been taking a medical history , Nurse Dungarvan ? ’ |
| 27 | Leith was still blinking at him and his nerve when he went on , ‘ I know you wear a ‘ hands off ’ sign at the office … ’ well , that was something , she supposed ‘ … but how long have you been wearing a deerstalker ? ’ |
| 28 | Ah , so you been doing a whole week of cooking . |
| 29 | You been burying the people you 've poisoned ? ’ |
| 30 | A training centre which specialises in courses on drilling and production technology for the oil industry has itself been learning a few lessons over the past 12 months . |