Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 2 | I think the police should have been to see her within hours and not waited four years to see her . ’ |
| 3 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 4 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 5 | Been seeing him for years . ’ |
| 6 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 8 | They 've been building it for God knows how long , cancelling trains , people ca n't get on or off the platforms . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's been helping them with background about MacQuillan , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |
| 11 | A Victorian jug on the mantelpiece had been given him by Louise one Christmas . |
| 12 | Cowboys may wear them out of necessity and convicts in the USA may have been given them as part of their uniform , but one thing 's for sure , whatever the reason , most people simply would n't live without them . |
| 13 | The desired religion therefore , must be acceptable , on the one hand to those who follow it because their belief is founded on logic-induced conviction , and on the other hand to those who come to believe , because tentative faith has been given them by others and who have reached conviction through experience . |
| 14 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 15 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 16 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 17 | A farmer in Didcot had been using them as fence posts . |
| 18 | Cheapies are fine — I have been using them for years ! |
| 19 | Women on the continent have been using them for years and they 're gradually becoming available in this country . |
| 20 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 21 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 22 | All the ones , the old secretaries who 've been using it for years think it 's absolutely wonderful . |
| 23 | Talbot acted as a primary test site for AppleShare and one of their customers , the Poole Advertiser , has actually been using it in anger for about three months . |
| 24 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 25 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 26 | whatever it is , deflate , and er guy come round , no problems , no problems with it , well I mean the head gasket 's gone and there 's a hole near the wing and bald tyre on it but mechanically it 's , this guy comes round to look at it , I mean he 's been driving it from Plymouth , he 's in the navy , up and down here , bloke comes round , yeah no problem , come on round mate , come and have a look at it , look round it , says yeah I like this can I just take it for a drive ? |
| 27 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 28 | I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ? |
| 29 | They 'd been keeping it under lights , and it seemed to be growing quite happily with one end in a pot of special plant water . |
| 30 | EMC Corp , Hopkinton , Massachusetts has sold more than $10m-worth of 4800 Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array storage devices to Delta Air Lines , Atlanta , Georgia : Delta previously used IBM Corp kit exclusively , namely 3380s , 3880s , 3090s and 3990s , but has been replacing them with Symmetrix 4400 and 4800 systems since November 1991 ; EMC claims that 15,000 square feet of floor space has been saved as a result ; it also attests to a 50% performance improvement over cached 3380s for reservation systems running on IBM 's 3090 Model 400 , a performance increase of between 30% and 50% with Airline Control Program and a performance boost of 30% to 40% with MVS , running off Hitachi Ltd EX 100s . |