Example sentences of "been [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 2 | ‘ This Government has been pursuing an energy strategy that was wrong in conception and incompetent in execution . ’ |
| 3 | and she said oh , she said I 've been to see a friend |
| 4 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 5 | All of us that is except uncle Eugenio , who had never been to see a film , saying that it was a fraud , all illusion , and that when the lights went up and all the characters disappeared the screen was no more than a rag . |
| 6 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 7 | " Have you been to see a doctor ? " |
| 8 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 9 | Puts them on notice that you 've been to see a solicitor . |
| 10 | If the patient has been seeing a physiotherapist privately , it still may be necessary to involve a second , specialist physiotherapist , if the patient stops progressing . |
| 11 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 12 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 13 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 14 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 15 | She 's been eating a seagull . |
| 16 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 17 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 18 | WE may have been leaked a world exclusive , incidentally , about a split in the Monster Raving Loonies ( for whom , incidentally , Screaming Lord Sutch is standing in three different seats . ) |
| 19 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 20 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 21 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 22 | A sheet had been spread out on the ground , and around it had been placed a square of long hard bolsters . |
| 23 | The style of the Victorian era has been enjoying a revival , first with the conservatory and now reproduction cloches . |
| 24 | Wildlife enthusiasts have been enjoying a treat tonight . |
| 25 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 26 | Mr Dunn is believed to have been enjoying a morning 's fun in the spring sunshine . |
| 27 | The importance of being able to reciprocate gifts in kind is also illustrated by case study data from Pahl 's study on household work strategies on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent , in which one man who was long-term unemployed had been helping an uncle to decorate his house , and how the uncle then gave him a large piece of meat . |
| 28 | The mother — who believes she passed on her 50-a-day habit to the girl while she was pregnant — revealed that Cherie had been diagnosed a nicotine addict by a doctor . |
| 29 | NOBODY really noticed , but Neil Kinnock has been nursing a chest cold . |
| 30 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |