Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 2 | In fact she 'd been repeating them every mile or so . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 5 | so Richard 's crying because he 'd been hitting him the face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 10 | 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 : |
| 11 | Off in the distance on the back lawns fires had been lit which the audience were moshing around . |
| 12 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 17 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 18 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 19 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 20 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 21 | He had been told what the writer wrote about the regime and the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 22 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 23 | Charity 's mind , that formidable intellect that had been governing her every action for years , reminded her of the crush of student loans she had to pay . |