Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | A woman 's been phoning your office every day : wants to speak to you . |
| 3 | As well as providing an all-weather play house , the children are building their knowledge of maths , science , technology and English . |
| 4 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 5 | IT IS a sunny morning and , leaning on your spade , you contemplate the dozen plots where you and 11 friends are building your dream homes … |
| 6 | ‘ Well , Master , we are building our arguments on the fact that there were men who looked like King James . ’ |
| 7 | For those not au fait with the aims of the Dick-Nixs , they 're an LA band whose purpose in life has been to see their namesake Tricky Dicky re-instated to his true position in life . |
| 8 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 9 | This she did , at which stage she had managed to go without drinking , but had not yet been to see her solicitor . |
| 10 | That afternoon she had been to see her doctor in Paris . |
| 11 | He 'd been to see his girlfriend in Southampton and was on his way to see his parents in Sheffield . |
| 12 | Filmer , I was interested to see , had been to see his horse before departure . |
| 13 | Graham Hunsley , defending , said he was now off hard drugs , had been to see his doctor about the problem and was hoping to undergo treatment at an addiction centre . |
| 14 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 15 | I 've been to see my mentor four times ! |
| 16 | Almost , in the midst of the new apartment that she hated as much as he did , though it had been decorated to her own specifications , she said , ‘ I have been to see my son . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 18 | ‘ Uncle Ross and I have been to see your mummy and daddy — and they are going to be just fine . ’ |
| 19 | I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that |
| 20 | ‘ Magnus 's mother has been to see your mother , ’ she said . |
| 21 | ‘ Been to see your mother , Nurse Avery ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been to see your husband , ’ she said — I did n't like that at all — ‘ and he asked me to tell you that if you do n't return home by the end of the week he is going to join forces with Kirsty Bull : she 's coming to live in and look after your children . ’ |
| 23 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 24 | Members of Congress and administration officials ought , in theory , to be wringing their hands this week ; most are shrugging their shoulders . |
| 25 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 26 | ‘ I am transforming my body , ’ he says , ‘ into a vehicle for greater communication . ’ |
| 27 | The employees are accepting their fate with the usual mix of bitterness and resignation . |
| 28 | the Russians are accepting our beef . |
| 29 | They have been treated as people who did not know what they were doing , have made some terrible mistake and are wasting their lives . |
| 30 | Reg Marshall said : ‘ They are wasting their money giving us a wooden hut . |