Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [adj] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been tired of it for years … |
| 2 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 3 | We 've been used to it for centuries . |
| 4 | I think so too probably , and you 've been used to it . |
| 5 | It wo n't even look expensive if you 've been mean about it . |
| 6 | Well in the sense that they 've been involved in it . |
| 7 | No in in your memory , of course , you 've been involved in it for a long time , have n't you ? |
| 8 | You 've been worrying about it for years . |
| 9 | I do n't know exactly how long , but I 've been aware of it for the last eighteen months . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been hard at it for several weeks now , and have no intention of giving up now , ’ said a spokesman , who also rebutted claims by Irish politicians that Scottish Enterprise has used a dirty tricks campaign to ensure Digital remains in Scotland . |
| 11 | Wonder why you 've been funny about it |
| 12 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |
| 13 | But so far you see , the er have been involved in it , who have been craftsmen , technicians have all come out of the end of a B Tec qualification with a distinction |
| 14 | ‘ The press have been decent about it for years ; even the Opposition has n't suggested that his attitudes affected my credibility or my wife 's . |
| 15 | Finally , stand back and have another look at the fish … is it really as good as you first thought , or have you become less impressed with it , the more you have been close to it ? |
| 16 | As middlemen since then , the Iranians and the Russians have pushed the UN further into the background and , at least until peace really does break out , the Americans have been happy for it to stay there . |
| 17 | Do you want me to have a go at doing that Simon ? because I have been difficult about it , if that helps you . |
| 18 | ‘ It is a relatively new technique and a lot of people have been sceptical about it but I am a firm believer in the method , ’ he said . |
| 19 | ‘ I have been aware of it for some little while . |