Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy 's been phoning you regularly , right ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't been to see her yet . |
| 3 | Well let's go ask and roundabout and go and see if there 's ah any cheap things cos we 've been to see her again and |
| 4 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 5 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 6 | They had n't been to see him today . |
| 7 | " Well , have you been to see him yet ? " |
| 8 | Oh he 's been to see him already ? |
| 9 | How proud they might have been to see him now , risen so high above their status ; how fulfilled . |
| 10 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 11 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been seeing you here . |
| 14 | ‘ And how anxious I am to see her again ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 16 | And I am seeing him again on Sunday . |
| 17 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 18 | Going out to the outlying part of town in which the creche had been situated you now travelled along a metalled road . |
| 19 | In our work we can not for a moment disregard them , yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly . |
| 20 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 21 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 22 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 23 | I tell Fairfax a great deal more than I had intended , but I believe our confidences are drawing us together . |
| 24 | It is an exploration of [ a ] vocabulary … which has been inherited within precise social and historical conditions and which has to be made at once conscious and critical — subject to change as well as continuity — if the millions of people in whom it is active are to see it as active : not as a tradition to be learned , nor a consensus to be accepted ; … but as a vocabulary to use , to find our ways in , to change as we find it necessary to change it , as we go on making our own language and history . |
| 25 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 26 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 27 | But I would be surprised if I did after this year , although , at this stage , I am still playing well enough and I am enjoying it enough so that if I want to play another tournament , I can . ’ |
| 28 | P.S. They cook good western food here , and I am enjoying it now and then as a change from Chinese . |
| 29 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 30 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |