Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 4 | I 've been paying him a little visit . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 8 | They 've been calling me a baboon and shit . |
| 9 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 12 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 13 | Floy , who had been cutting himself a slice of ham , looked up , because there was a lick of anticipatory pleasure in Goibniu 's tone . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 18 | " 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ This magazine has been giving me a hard time . |
| 22 | ‘ Geoff has been giving me a lot of help , having a look at my action and making a few minor adjustments . |
| 23 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 24 | ‘ Luke been giving you a hard time ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He just wished she could have been spared them a little longer . |