Example sentences of "been [verb] [verb] me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 2 | The fact that they have been invited shows me how stone-cold almost sure Conrad Black had been of a Tory victory . |
| 3 | On the street again , suddenly I felt I was in the middle of a farce — ‘ POLICE SEARCH FOR THE BIG BANANA IS ON — and the discovery that actually I did have my cheque numbers in my moneybelt and that it was the photocopies that had been stolen made me almost light-headed . |
| 4 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 6 | I can recognise a set-up when I see one , and you , Mr Burns , have been trying to set me up . |
| 7 | After all , the press have been trying to marry me off for years . ’ |
| 8 | Minginish has been trying to keep me here , in the Rorim . |