Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
2 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
3 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
4 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
5 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
6 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
7 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
8 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
9 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
10 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
11 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |
12 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
13 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
14 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
15 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
16 | If things had turned out differently I 'd been driving you down here . |
17 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
18 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
19 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
20 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
21 | Well , I phoned them up , and I 'd been badgering them , and they told me to wait for a further communication . |
22 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
23 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
24 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
25 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
26 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
27 | Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself . |
28 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
29 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
30 | I had been telling him so for the last few weeks . |