Example sentences of "[pron] been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I been spending a lot of time with her these days .
2	‘ Somebody been nicking the family silver , 'ave they ? ’
3	Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed .
4	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 ?
5	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 ?
6	‘ You been watching the news ? ’
7	You will not need to take as many steps to conceal this as you would have had you been writing the blueprint book .
8	‘ Have you been swapping the furniture around again ? ’
9	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 ? ’
10	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 ? ’
11	Or have we been addressing the Chairman all along ?
12	Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ?
13	Had he been telling the truth ?
14	His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day .
15	Why had he been having an affair ?
16	So when the cry came , that first cry which heralds life , had anyone been passing the house at that moment , it is doubtful that they would have heard it .

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