Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] been [verb] around " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 2 | I told you , I 've been moved around like a parcel . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been sniffing around and nothing about this city smells kosher . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been waiting around in Reception for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 5 | I knew when your lesson was and worked out when you 'd have to leave the house , and I 've been skulking around here , waiting for you . |
| 6 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 8 | I this morning , I 've been running around and I ca n't get it out . |
| 9 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been asking around , about Werner — — you know , the cop at Ostkreuz . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been asking around about Werner , who interviewed you about the accident . |
| 12 | That 's not what I 've heard and I 've been asking around about you . |
| 13 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 've been playing around with one for quite a while ; it 's a very nice piece of work . |
| 15 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 16 | These represent in most instances the crofts or separate paddocks of half an acre to an acre in size which have been hedged around since medieval times . |
| 17 | They 've gone , all those people who 've been marching around inside my head : Mum , Dad , teachers , infuriating old Brian — even Cal who 's everyone 's friend when I 'm nobody 's friend but she 's special to me … |
| 18 | ‘ Because you 've been pushed around so often . ’ |
| 19 | That way it will look as if you 've been asking around about me . ’ |
| 20 | Problems with men are central to the Bytches ' complaints , and the record begins with a potent warning in ‘ Comin' Back Strapped ’ , a call to arms for women who have been slapped around . |
| 21 | ‘ There have been quite a number of ladies who have been mugged around here , ’ he said . |
| 22 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 23 | I just wan na see if it 's been erased since we 've been digging around . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've been sitting around twiddling our thumbs for some of the time and people have been sloping off early , ’ he said . |
| 25 | Well we 've been rushing around have n't we ? |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 27 | Er , although they 've been moving around with me , but er they did very well in their studies in the end . |
| 28 | Although these are ‘ laboratory ’ specimens , they 've been kicking around for about six months and I 'd expect them to be detected quickly . |
| 29 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |