Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't been seeing him regular ? ’ |
| 2 | Could of been using me French |
| 3 | out my nails look , I been scrubbing it everyday . |
| 4 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 5 | You 've been driving me crazy , but now I 'm going to have your body , and if it 's the last time then so be it . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
| 7 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 8 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 9 | Paddy said , ‘ He 's been insulting me a' night . ’ |
| 10 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 11 | Well er going back to when I started serving my time as an apprentice er I think I started with eleven shillings and I was there for about nine months when the manager come over and says to me he had been paying me short . |
| 12 | The council 's housing officer says she 's got to go back to her flat with an injunction , otherwise she 's making herself intentionally homeless , and he says the arrears are £4OO , that 's impossible , the DHSS has been paying it direct ! |
| 13 | In October 1795 they settled together at Racedown Lodge , Dorset , a house which had been offered them rent-free by a Bristol family , the Pinneys . |
| 14 | Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of ‘ talking trash ’ and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party . |
| 15 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
| 16 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 17 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 18 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 19 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 20 | She 's been giving me strange looks ever since I got here — doubtless because it 's not exactly commonplace for the star of the show to make bookings for the lowly make-up artist . ’ |
| 21 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 22 | Russian sources have recently been making it clear that once current investment projects are up and running Cuba will get little more direct financial assistance . |
| 23 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 24 | Finally , one of the doctors who had been advising him prescribed complete rest of the voice for a full two weeks before his next recital . |
| 25 | Recalling , no doubt , the sad disruptions of her own early life , she declared that ‘ our grand study has been to make him happy ’ , and added that under their Rousseau-inspired regime , in which Basil was taught nothing ‘ but what he learns from the evidence of his senses ’ , he had become ‘ certainly the most contented child I ever saw ; the least disposed to be fretful . ’ |