Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 2 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 3 | Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’ |
| 4 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 5 | Our own expert Mandy Johnson has been telling you the wisdom of physiotherapy for many , many months and will continue for some time to come . |
| 6 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 7 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 8 | Once it has been established what the relevant scope of the employer 's business is , the next question is whether the restriction does no more than protect any existing customer connection . |
| 9 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 10 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 11 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 12 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 13 | In fact she 'd been repeating them every mile or so . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 16 | so Richard 's crying because he 'd been hitting him the face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 19 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 20 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 21 | He says that the message from those giving evidence was that they should have been told what the situation was — that terreorist were known to be active in the region . |
| 22 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 23 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 24 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 25 | Off in the distance on the back lawns fires had been lit which the audience were moshing around . |
| 26 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 27 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 28 | Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone . |
| 29 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |
| 30 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |