Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLWALL defender Colin Cooper showed why Nottingham Forest have been pursuing him with a fine display in their 2–1 win at DERBY . |
| 2 | Yes , it was real , it was happening : sitting with her back straight and her head up in the carriage on the way back , she thought how proud her father would have been to see her at the centre of all this pomp and splendour , and found herself mentally comparing his craggy looks and red beard with Joãs clean-shaven face and small , manicured hands . |
| 3 | Boz is the only one she 'd tell such a thing to , but she 's already told me Boz has n't been to see her since the attack . ’ |
| 4 | The only plausible way historically to guarantee the authority of such rights has been to see them as the issue of a divine law-giver . |
| 5 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 6 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 7 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 8 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 9 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 10 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 11 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 12 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 13 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 14 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 15 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 16 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 17 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 18 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 19 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 20 | He said , ‘ No , I have statements , I have witnesses and we 've been surveying you for the last four months . ’ |
| 21 | A key objective since Tencel was launched has been to position it at the top end of the market , working with the best mills , converters and manufacturers and attracting a premium price for the fibre . |
| 22 | An alternative explanation for price rises , for example , has been to relate them to the amount of money in circulation or the bullion value of the coinage . |
| 23 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 24 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 25 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 26 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 27 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 28 | Jimmy Page 's best guitar solo The one from Since I 've Been Loving You on the third album . |
| 29 | Detectives have been hunting him since the discovery of a bomb factory in a London flat shortly before last Christmas . |
| 30 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |