Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DIRECTOR Terence Young has been telling me about his new film project — a suspense movie , Metal Tree , starring close friend Brooke Shields . |
| 2 | JOHN Mortimer has been telling me about his first ever speaking role in Rumpole of the Bailey , his popular television series . |
| 3 | MODEL Sophia Berggren has been telling me about the unusual special effects used for her current Clairol hair colouring advertisement . |
| 4 | ANNA Bergman has been telling me about her best Christmas present — a reconciliation with her father , Swedish film director Ingmar . |
| 5 | Marie has been telling me about her . |
| 6 | Colin Pawson , the Royal Mail 's head of philatelic marketing , has been telling me of the energy stored in the gum on the back . |
| 7 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 8 | IAN KNOX of Ardglass has been telling me of the hazards of his favourite pastime , riding penny-farthing bicycles . |
| 9 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose Iris has been telling you about my chats with ‘ the nutter ’ , as she calls him ? ’ |
| 11 | The answer until now has been to put them in geriatric units . |
| 12 | ‘ And who has been filling you with canards about Honoria Greville ? |
| 13 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 14 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 15 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 16 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 17 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 18 | The desired religion therefore , must be acceptable , on the one hand to those who follow it because their belief is founded on logic-induced conviction , and on the other hand to those who come to believe , because tentative faith has been given them by others and who have reached conviction through experience . |
| 19 | Ozymandias , whose famous admonishment has been haunting me from Day One , seems to lurk round every corner , laughing up his sleeve . |
| 20 | ‘ My organisation has been monitoring it for some time now . ’ |
| 21 | Stark 's confidence appears to have been at a low ebb but the Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , has been reminding him of his form earlier in the season : at the Dubai Sevens , which the Scots won ; in the A international against Italy in Melrose when the Boroughmuir winger had a hand in both tries ; and in his senior international debut against Ireland at Murrayfield , when he scored one try and was heavily involved in the other from Tony Stanger . |
| 22 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 23 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 24 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 25 | EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s . |
| 26 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 27 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 28 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 29 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 30 | The real enthusiast has been doing it for years . |