Example sentences of "been [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know why , but David has been to see it several times he thought it was really good . |
| 2 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 3 | You have n't been seeing him regular ? ’ |
| 4 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 5 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 6 | no I do n't like them at all he says , now my doctor had been given me this one |
| 7 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 8 | Could of been using me French |
| 9 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 10 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 11 | out my nails look , I been scrubbing it everyday . |
| 12 | A fly , whose buzzing had been driving me insane , was struggling for life . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
| 15 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 16 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 17 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 18 | I told you when I rote that it was impossible for me to pay anything , as he was allowed by the parish when he was at Muggerhanger , and I told you I had my daughter on my hands for over seven years , and I have been doctering her all the time so I think you will consider the matter over and no that I can not help in any way , and in any case 4s. is a lot of money to pay a week . |
| 19 | Paddy said , ‘ He 's been insulting me a' night . ’ |
| 20 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 21 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 22 | They 've been paying me thirty nine pound sixty have n't they ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ! |
| 25 | It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |
| 28 | This had clearly been worrying them both . |
| 29 | I think that 's been worrying him more than anything else you know |
| 30 | That had been choking him this long time gone . |