Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else |
| 2 | Lucy 's been phoning you regularly , right ? ’ |
| 3 | Selling engines to original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) , such as vehicle builders , agricultural and mechanical handling equipment manufacturers , and producers of generating sets and compressors means selling to customers who are building somebody else 's product into the heart of their own machines . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't been to see her yet . |
| 5 | Well let's go ask and roundabout and go and see if there 's ah any cheap things cos we 've been to see her again and |
| 6 | She 's only been with them three months , remember , and Daniel has n't been to see her since . |
| 7 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 8 | They had n't been to see him today . |
| 9 | " Well , have you been to see him yet ? " |
| 10 | Oh he 's been to see him already ? |
| 11 | How proud they might have been to see him now , risen so high above their status ; how fulfilled . |
| 12 | The court adjourned the case on Oct. 19 , 1990 , on the grounds that the charge of complicity in genocide could not be substantiated , after 40 witnesses had been examined who all stressed that Vlad 's position of formal approval of Ceausescu 's orders had been prompted by fear . |
| 13 | Since then , this deserted corner of King 's Reach Tower has been my spiritual home , but I gradually overcame the contemptuous disdain which is heaped on all outsiders and now , finally , I feel the natives are accepting me as one of their own . |
| 14 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 16 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been seeing you here . |
| 17 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 18 | ‘ And how anxious I am to see her again ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Sense and Memory of things , which are common to man and all living creatures ’ are knowledge , but ‘ because they are given us immediately by nature , and not gotten by ratiocination , they are not philosophy . ’ |
| 20 | And I am seeing him again on Sunday . |
| 21 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 22 | Going out to the outlying part of town in which the creche had been situated you now travelled along a metalled road . |
| 23 | In our work we can not for a moment disregard them , yet we are never sure that we are seeing them clearly . |
| 24 | Scientists are using their most powerful source of X-rays to put together a new picture of the structure of glass , one of the most versatile and familiar of materials |
| 25 | If pre-baiting is carried out conscientiously , bream can be taught to take practically any edible matter , but there is little chance of success if almost all other anglers on that water are using something else , especially if it is the same alternative food . |
| 26 | If we need people with financial experience and managerial experience , then appoint them to the local to the Police Committee , given them a job to do , they 're the ones that are should advise the Chief Constable and the Police Committee as to whether they 're spending the right of money on computers and are using it properly , not whether they 're using them operationally correctly . |
| 27 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |
| 28 | Even in its innocent context near the start of Volume One , when the hobbits are using it only to help themselves along , it has an odd ring . |
| 29 | I tell Fairfax a great deal more than I had intended , but I believe our confidences are drawing us together . |
| 30 | For almost thirty years , Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne have been producing their often functional sculptures . |