Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 2 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 3 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 4 | Rubberneck knew them all , pious lives ; he had been lectured them a hundred times , even if he still could not fix a face to a saint , or only ( he felt an affinity ) St Francis . |
| 5 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 6 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 7 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 8 | The cumulative effect of the language of the British inner city has been to give it a contradictory definition , as a conceptual space both inside and outside of society . |
| 9 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 10 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’ |
| 12 | " Apparently some of the younger fellows in the Owsla have been giving him a thin time — teasing him about his fur , you know , and saying he only got his place because of the Threarah . |
| 13 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 14 | The man had a faint discoloration under one eye — he could n't help speculating whether Dotty had n't been giving him a hard time . |
| 15 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 16 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 17 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 18 | ‘ Luke been giving you a hard time ? ’ |
| 19 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 20 | But Aldi says it has had trouble : the Office of Fair Trading is investigating Aldi 's claim that suppliers , frightened of affronting their main customers , have been giving it the cold shoulder . |
| 21 | Oh yes been making it a long time . |
| 22 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 23 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 24 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |