Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 2 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 3 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 4 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 5 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 6 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 7 | He 'd been pressing me to come down here for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been avoiding me , I knew he had , then I met him and he said it was time to finish , ’ Maureen wept . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought maybe you 'd been avoiding me . ’ |
| 10 | If he 'd been following me he would have to have been close because I had gone straight to the camera , and I would have heard him , even in the wind . |
| 11 | When I was feeling really low , I could have quit if it had n't been for everyone who 'd been following me , and that comes down to everyone here at the schools . |
| 12 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 13 | A year beforehand , Chudnovsky , who was a collector from Leningrad , and a very well-known one , had been to see me and asked if I could help him . |
| 14 | What sins , what meannesses , what grave errors I had committed in the previous ten years had been forgiven me . |
| 15 | no I do n't like them at all he says , now my doctor had been given me this one |
| 16 | The whole business had been getting me down . |
| 17 | It seemed a right time , a right moment to ask Shama another question which had been haunting me . |
| 18 | She had been pursuing me . |
| 19 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 20 | ‘ It was Bernard , who had been watching me from his office and asked me if I had ever thought of a career in modelling . ’ |
| 21 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 22 | For months its organizers had been pestering me to turn up . |
| 23 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 24 | Bruneau had been driving me too hard . |
| 25 | I told him that your man had been annoyin' me with his ‘ is-that-a-he-or-a-she ? ’ questions so I threatened to take my prick out and show it to him . |
| 26 | ‘ How did you know someone had been strangling me if everyone else in there was willing to believe I 'd had a fit ? ’ |
| 27 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 28 | Even if she had been asking me to make love to her — which she was n't — the answer would very definitely have been no . |
| 29 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 30 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |