Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 3 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 4 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 5 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 6 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 7 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 8 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 9 | He did one thing in Hollywood for which he has not been given anything like sufficient credit . |
| 10 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 11 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 12 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 13 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 14 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 15 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 16 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 17 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 18 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 19 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 20 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 21 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 22 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 23 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 24 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been told one in 10 couples is infertile but they ca n't be in your street , can they ? |
| 26 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 27 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 28 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 29 | Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |