Example sentences of "has been [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 2 | Stephen has been telling us how much you have helped him . ’ |
| 3 | To his evident surprise , Dr Ashok Kumar has been telling us what a civilised place the House of Commons is . |
| 4 | Several times an unsuccessful council candidate in Washington East ( ‘ it would frighten the life out of me if I got in ’ ) he has been telling us how his work and his passionate concern combine . |
| 5 | Arthur Scargill , love him or loathe him , has been telling us but nobody listens . |
| 6 | But one official told TODAY : ‘ The Press has been wanting us to make some statement on the marriage and Morton 's book for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ God 's own love has been poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given us , ’ says Paul in Romans 5:5 , and he rejoices to hear of that ‘ love in the Spirit ’ , which is to be found in the church at Colossae ( 1:8 ) . |
| 8 | The Spirit has been given us to enable us to understand not the future , but the gracious gifts God has already made over to us ( 2:12 ) . |
| 9 | A friend of Rosemary 's has been teaching us a few basic ballroom dances — the deal is that we both go to his aerobics classes ! |
| 10 | The main one has been to make us think more closely about how the visual system might be organized . |
| 11 | However , it would seem that Greg Martin , your mother 's companion when the yacht was lost , has been fooling us these past twenty years . |
| 12 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 13 | ‘ On the very eve of going to press we are happy to be able to announce what promises to be a satisfactory solution of the lady member problem which has been troubling us . |
| 14 | A foreigner who is stunningly attractive will readily upset the apple-cart of our preconceptions , as will a friend whom we discover has been slandering us behind our back . |
| 15 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 16 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 17 | Miss Superglue has been following us around faithfully with a photographer in tow trying to immortalise their supposed passionate reunion . |
| 18 | ‘ The Hungarian government has been asking us what questions it should put to companies wanting to invest there , ’ Davies says . |