Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 32 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 33 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 34 | He says , ‘ You 've been giving me the wrong club all week . ’ |
| 35 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 36 | ‘ Luke been giving you a hard time ? ’ |
| 37 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 38 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 39 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 40 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 41 | Course I have , been giving it a what we 've had , like when the kids did n't eat their dinner or we ai n't eat all our dinner been giving it what 's left on the plate , well |
| 42 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |
| 45 | yes yes I 've been consulting him a bit about my Romans project |
| 46 | Oh yes been making it a long time . |
| 47 | Zambia has been telling me a lot , you know . ’ |
| 48 | The former England striker revealed : ‘ The chairman has been telling me the same thing ever since I took over 18 months ago . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 51 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | The Maxteds have been telling us a lot about you . ’ |
| 54 | the old boys have been telling us the stories and it 's brought a tear to the eye |
| 55 | Our own expert Mandy Johnson has been telling you the wisdom of physiotherapy for many , many months and will continue for some time to come . |
| 56 | Been bothering me a bit has that . |
| 57 | Well I 'd like to say that it 's not only adults who have an interest in this subject and have been watching what the county council is going to do about it . |
| 58 | Mary Heilman has lately been setting herself the task of uniting the eccentric spaces resulting from what appear to be the merging of two or more rectangular canvases . |
| 59 | I 've been promising myself a drink for the last couple of hours … ’ |
| 60 | In fact she 'd been repeating them every mile or so . |