Example sentences of "been [verb] me [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues . |
| 3 | Er the N F U representative for Nottinghamshire , based in Stanford has been to see me about it |
| 4 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 5 | She has very kindly been helping me with my research . ’ |
| 6 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |
| 7 | ‘ That bloody bird has been annoying me for days . ’ |
| 8 | But I have met your brother at long last and Mrs Powers has been regaling me with the most fascinating pieces of village gossip . ’ |
| 9 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 10 | I told him that your man had been annoyin' me with his ‘ is-that-a-he-or-a-she ? ’ questions so I threatened to take my prick out and show it to him . |
| 11 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 12 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 13 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 14 | And that 's been another thing that 's been worrying me over the weekend . |
| 15 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 16 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 17 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 18 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 19 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 20 | Old body disposer Pugh 's nephew Duncan has been begging me for months to let him play and things have got so desperate I have no choice but to take him on . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been asking me for weeks if I 'm jealous ! |
| 22 | First of all , many people have been asking me on this programme in the past what credentials you people on the Council have for setting a budget . |
| 23 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 24 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 26 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 27 | Well , lately I 've begun to understand that God has been punishing me for my pride and my past wickedness . |
| 28 | Because you 've been badgering me for weeks to go to a car boot sale . |
| 29 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ If you have been taking me for granted , ’ Mr O'Hara argued , ‘ then that is my fault . |