Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " 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 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 3 | The item may be faulty , or the wrong size/colour , or the customer may have been given it as a present . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 6 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well kids stay all the time but they 've been using it as a doss house , you know , |
| 9 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 10 | And I think they 'd just been hounding him for a while and that was the last straw . |
| 11 | Three of the medical staff who attended her independently assured her that had she not been so fit and supple they would have been measuring her for a wheelchair , or worse . |
| 12 | She 'd have been wearing it on a day like this . ’ |
| 13 | The intention had been to brand her as a ‘ hoarder ’ as well as the ‘ milk snatcher ’ , but most of us thought this seemed an eminently sensible thing for her to have done . |
| 14 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 15 | ‘ I have been expecting you for a week , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 17 | A good A&R Manager can earn sixty or seventy grand , whilst successful A&R Directors can earn upwards of a hundred grand and considerably more if they 've been doing it for a while . ’ |
| 18 | That 's what I said Norman , women have been doing it for a lot longer . |
| 19 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 20 | that is something that 'd happened all of a sudden , of about four throughout the cou , well three at the time throughout the country have suddenly gone like it within about a month or so of each other , and they 've never had any trouble before , but I was talking to Brian and he said that 's a load of cobblers , he says it 's been doing it for a long time and there 's loads of them doing it . |
| 21 | I do n't know , but she 's been doing it for a while . |
| 22 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 23 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 24 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 25 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 26 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 27 | Been taking it for a week or so now ! |
| 28 | A SEEMS to me as though you may have been overfeeding them with a fertiliser containing quite a lot of nitrogen and perhaps over-watering . |
| 29 | THE Rev. Martin Smyth , MP , has been telling me of a neat little trick pulled by local people to have houses built at Innes Place on the Donegall Road . |
| 30 | ‘ It must have been bothering you for a few days . ’ |