Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] [vb base] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 2 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 3 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 4 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 6 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 7 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 8 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 9 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 10 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 11 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 12 | That 's right yes , as I say I 've been left back and I won very comfortable , but in the middle I 'm a lot more comfortable . |
| 13 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 14 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 15 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 16 | I say you 've been thank you very much . |
| 17 | ‘ I expect they have been taken back to the Wyrmberg . ’ |
| 18 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 19 | The detailed plans were unveiled after a two year study , but local people say they 've been misled , and councillors say it would be an environmental disaster . |
| 20 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 21 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 22 | But hospital staff say they 've been vindicated by the inquest verdict . |
| 23 | Martin and Koda plan just as ambitious a schedule of costume exhibitions at their new home — three per year — and they say they 've been given a mandate to do that . |
| 24 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 25 | Because of it they say they 've been forced to live in a tent with their young children . |
| 26 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 27 | Dressed in black , undergraduates say they 've been gagged and had their hands tied in their attempts to persuade the governing body to maintain Somerville as a single sex college . |
| 28 | Workers at a Grand Prix racing team which is facing receivership , say they 've been betrayed by their management . |
| 29 | They say they 've been promised full consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made — and so far that has n't happened . |
| 30 | Chelsea have not confirmed their approach to him and the Swindon board say they 've been told nothing . |