Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been jocked off . |
| 2 | I 've been sussed out . |
| 3 | I 've been stood out there ages ! — Anyway , why are n't you dressed yet , you lazy beggar ? |
| 4 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 5 | I 've been ringing off and on since lunchtime . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been holding back again this passion . |
| 7 | Nelson , dismissed for complaining about a tackle by Derek Mountfield , said : ‘ I 've played more than 550 games and this is the first time in my career I 've been sent off . |
| 8 | I 've been sent down to arrange your indictments before a French civil court on all these charges . |
| 9 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 10 | I 've been mucked up , mucked it up completely now . |
| 11 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 12 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 13 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 14 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , for the moment I 've been cut off . |
| 16 | I 've been shut in ! |
| 17 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 18 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 20 | Then there 's new positions I 've been reading about , yaar . |
| 21 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
| 22 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 23 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 25 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 28 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 30 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |