Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a document that has conveniently been leaked to me , the hon. Gentleman , without any hesitation , contradicts the words of the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) in ’ Raising the Standard ’ . |
| 2 | Had General Francis not had his two sticks propped against his chair as a tangible reminder of his condition , and had he not , as had now been explained to me , been making this social call to thank me for nursing his son after paying a second professional visit himself to Bernard Remington-Hart , his appearance and that Rolls outside would have frozen Margaret into a prissy caricature of her normal self . |
| 3 | Why this ceremony has to take place so early in the morning has never been explained to me , but it appears to be as essential a part of the nuptials as the Hindi movie music the night before . |
| 4 | And what has been arranged for me ? , |
| 5 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 6 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 7 | Well , they were expensive if you had to buy them but they had been given to me , along with a pair of golf shoes , by the Italian company which supplied Jack . |
| 8 | That is not the advice that has been given to me . |
| 9 | Well I gave him all the information that had been given to me and we discussed between us various options that were open to us . |
| 10 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 11 | Often members of my slimming classes have been referred to me by their doctors , anxious for their patients to reduce their weight and so help reduce their blood pressure . |
| 12 | Eventually , on 11 February 1992 the appeal was transferred to the High Court in London where the matter has been listed before me today , 17 February 1992 . |
| 13 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 14 | Oh Micky Mars Bars been knocking for me , Clinton 's supposed to be knocking for me , Jay do n't know what the fuck 's he 's , he 's supposed to be doing ! |
| 15 | Winnie , you have been , you have been , you have been cheating on me . |
| 16 | When I read Mary Gordon 's Final Payments a few years ago I shuddered with relief at having broken the spell of what had been wished on me . |
| 17 | ‘ You have been recommended to me , ’ Corbett answered brusquely . |
| 18 | He want 's us to do it , apparently he 's been recommended to me , I |
| 19 | For some unknown reason I thought my chute must have been torn off me while I was getting out of my kite , and almost gave up making any further efforts to save myself . |
| 20 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 21 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 22 | Argument has been addressed to me as to how that sum should fall to be represented in the damages awarded , bearing in mind that it has been substantially discharged by an interim payment and that it will not inure to any log term benefit of the plaintiff . |
| 23 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 24 | A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year . |
| 25 | This has been happening to me , just the same . |
| 26 | I feel a heavy burden has been lifted from me . |
| 27 | That tray had just been prepared for me personally by the cook ! |
| 28 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been looking at me , your eldest son , Karim . |
| 30 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |