Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [art] " 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 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
| 3 | Having set the Duchy on the road to providing an income for the Prince of Wales , the next task had been to find him a house and , of all those short-listed in the summer of 1980 , Charles chose Highgrove . |
| 4 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He had been told what the writer wrote about the regime and the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council . |
| 9 | He says that the message from those giving evidence was that they should have been told what the situation was — that terreorist were known to be active in the region . |
| 10 | Have you been told what the cheapest term assurances are in order ? |
| 11 | Charity 's mind , that formidable intellect that had been governing her every action for years , reminded her of the crush of student loans she had to pay . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 14 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |
| 15 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 16 | Off in the distance on the back lawns fires had been lit which the audience were moshing around . |
| 17 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 18 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 21 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 22 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 23 | Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone . |
| 24 | But I see there 's blood sausage , ’ he said , and sent them such a terrible leery grin , that Snodgrass , who had been cutting himself a slice from this , which he had innocently thought was something like the spicy Renascian liver-and-wine-roll , recoiled and snatched his hand back as if he had been burnt . |
| 25 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 26 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 29 | " 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |