Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy 's been phoning you regularly , right ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been seeing him regularly for a few months now . |
| 3 | ‘ No , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been seeing you here . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 6 | There was one though on the Antique Road Show where there 's erm er girl brought in a kettle and they 've been using it just every day and it was pottery and it was actually to buy her her own house . |
| 7 | Someone had been using it regularly , and recently . |
| 8 | The user can also lock out his floppy disk drive or input-output port , if the computer 's log-in count indicates someone has been using it illicitly . |
| 9 | And as we 've been singing we just want those words to be true in our experience . |
| 10 | He has been nagging me actually since I threw his others , he threw his others away that when some more came in , but these are alright for girls ai n't they ? |
| 11 | Bruneau had been driving me too hard . |
| 12 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 13 | Where Cooper has been taking instruction on board , Waters has been tossing it aside . |
| 14 | ‘ If your wife fancies me — as you put it she 's been keeping it very much to herself . ’ |
| 15 | But they 've been keeping it though have n't they ? |
| 16 | I have been wanting it badly . |
| 17 | Everything in her life — all the pain , blood and death — had been pushing her onwards and into the desert . |
| 18 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |
| 19 | Little Polveir does not get warmed up until he has gone three miles and Toby Balding has been training him specifically with Saturday in mind . |
| 20 | ‘ They 've been turning them away again , Miss Greene — in their droves … |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 22 | You have been feeding it though ? |
| 23 | Have they been feeding you well at the hospital ? |
| 24 | She 'd been calling him often , at least a couple of times every week . |
| 25 | So I do n't know whether they 'd been sending them away , to be er as patterns to some other firm or what , but there was quite a quant there was er a quantity of of casting sand you know black stuff that you use . |
| 26 | That 's why you 've been tracking him all over Central America . |
| 27 | We had been getting it wrong , so were face down in a foot of water in the field doing press-ups . |
| 28 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 29 | Well I 've visited both Cambodia itself and the camps , er first of all in the camps , the situation is appalling because there are very many people who do not want to be in those camps and are really in effect being held there against their will , and what has been extraordinary until this year , is that the people who 've been holding them there against their will have been the Phol Pot dominated so-called coalition government and on the basis of the people being in the camps , that , that , that regime has gone on to claim recognition at the United Nations ; an appalling situation . |
| 30 | I had n't been expecting him quite so soon . |