Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb base] been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 2 | ‘ When we have our celebration , it reminds me of Lourdes , and I 've been going to Lourdes since 1961 . |
| 3 | And I 've been going to the shop and changing a note every time for the change . |
| 4 | And I 've been ordered to . |
| 5 | And I 've been running to the toilet , five times yesterday , five times , really bad . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , ’ he said disarmingly , ‘ I may be the devil , but I do n't drink and I 've been married to the same woman for 40 years , so I ca n't be that bad . ’ |
| 7 | It 's all a long time ago and I 've been married to him for thirty-nine years . |
| 8 | ‘ A couple of the DJs and I have been invited to a party being given by one of the local music companies . |
| 9 | ‘ The one consolation is that my husband Samuel and David and I have been invited to be in the audience when Go For It is filmed . |
| 10 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 11 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 12 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 13 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 14 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 15 | They 've bought up two hundred thousand tonnes of the crop … and they 've been asked to fork out for another two hundred fifty thousand tonnes . |
| 16 | But the links have commonly been flawed in two ways : they have involved little risk of penalty for poor performance ; and they have been tied to short-term measures ( generally year-by-year ) . |
| 17 | I believe that there are four excellent fund holding practices in my hon. Friend 's neighbourhood , and they have been adding to the region 's total health care provision and are bringing new services to patients . |