Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen has been telling us how much you have helped him . ’ |
| 2 | Several times an unsuccessful council candidate in Washington East ( ‘ it would frighten the life out of me if I got in ’ ) he has been telling us how his work and his passionate concern combine . |
| 3 | Little Polveir does not get warmed up until he has gone three miles and Toby Balding has been training him specifically with Saturday in mind . |
| 4 | The issue of ‘ reprivatisation ’ , as it is quaintly termed , is also politically sensitive , and the Polish Sejm has been throwing it back and forth across the Chamber like a hot potato . |
| 5 | She has been facing them down . |
| 6 | ’ I hear that George has been living it up a bit lately ? ’ |
| 7 | Well he said Mike must have said , what has been holding it up if I , we were under the impression that when she left London , she was finished with her property |
| 8 | Since DTS started , God has been teaching me not only through the lectures , but through my time alone with Him and also through living in close quarters with people ! |
| 9 | He has been nagging me actually since I threw his others , he threw his others away that when some more came in , but these are alright for girls ai n't they ? |
| 10 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 11 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 12 | Mum , that 's Carol , has been riding him out this week , while Dad , that 's Richard , the trainer and son , Tom have been masterminding and monitoring the build up . |
| 13 | If there is an incident when friends walk away because she has been ordering them around , explain to her why that happened . |
| 14 | Mark Kiff has been to weigh them up |
| 15 | She has been letting them in has n't she ? |
| 16 | Thus , as was intended , the Act has had most impact on consumer transactions , and its effect , together with the Consumer Protection Act 1987 , has been to make it hardly worthwhile to exclude liability in consumer transactions . |
| 17 | Glenys has been doing it ever since , han |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 19 | Because even after you 've applied and your policy has been issued you still have 14 days to return it to us with no financial obligation . |
| 20 | I wonder how long its owner has been trailing it up and down the length of England … |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the price that has been pulling them out as well as the thought of missing out on some paperwork . |
| 22 | So the practice has been to regard them rather unofficially as having been satisfied if there is compliance on about … three occasions out of four , or four out of five , or two out of three — practices are variable from one authority to another . |
| 23 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 24 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |
| 25 | Time is running out because she is in her forties and has been told she only has about 18 months in which to become pregnant before she will be deemed too old . |
| 26 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 27 | Miss Superglue has been following us around faithfully with a photographer in tow trying to immortalise their supposed passionate reunion . |
| 28 | She 's been reading them up for days . ’ |
| 29 | He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve . |
| 30 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |