Example sentences of "been [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | A woman 's been phoning your office every day : wants to speak to you . |
| 3 | For those not au fait with the aims of the Dick-Nixs , they 're an LA band whose purpose in life has been to see their namesake Tricky Dicky re-instated to his true position in life . |
| 4 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 5 | This she did , at which stage she had managed to go without drinking , but had not yet been to see her solicitor . |
| 6 | That afternoon she had been to see her doctor in Paris . |
| 7 | He 'd been to see his girlfriend in Southampton and was on his way to see his parents in Sheffield . |
| 8 | Filmer , I was interested to see , had been to see his horse before departure . |
| 9 | Graham Hunsley , defending , said he was now off hard drugs , had been to see his doctor about the problem and was hoping to undergo treatment at an addiction centre . |
| 10 | I 've been to see my mentor four times ! |
| 11 | Almost , in the midst of the new apartment that she hated as much as he did , though it had been decorated to her own specifications , she said , ‘ I have been to see my son . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd been to see my great-aunt 's solicitors in Glasgow and they gave me the keys . |
| 13 | ‘ Uncle Ross and I have been to see your mummy and daddy — and they are going to be just fine . ’ |
| 14 | I says I know , you have n't been to see your team here , he says right once you 've been to Wembley the second time 's never as good it 's just that |
| 15 | ‘ Magnus 's mother has been to see your mother , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ Been to see your mother , Nurse Avery ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been to see your husband , ’ she said — I did n't like that at all — ‘ and he asked me to tell you that if you do n't return home by the end of the week he is going to join forces with Kirsty Bull : she 's coming to live in and look after your children . ’ |
| 18 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 19 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 20 | She 's been seeing her therapist again , thought Henry , as he stumbled towards the Passat . |
| 21 | It must have been seeing her reading Tennyson that had dredged up an old forgotten quotation . |
| 22 | I know you 've been seeing my Josephine and I 've heard you brag about it , you cocky little bastard . |
| 23 | Agnes pulled herself up straighter in the chair and , looking into the broad face , she said , ‘ Your son has been seeing my sister clandestinely . ’ |
| 24 | Fribble , who had been eating his supper with industrious pleasure , said , ‘ I never heard that story until lately , you know . |
| 25 | Have you been eating your muffins in there . |
| 26 | This biggest sister to the popular J/24 has already been proving her pedigree on race courses in Britain and the States |
| 27 | Apple , in particular , have been building their repertoire of authoring tools ever since they launched their quintessential multimedia platform , the Macintosh . |
| 28 | In the dressing room player coach Greg Downs , another Wembley winner with Coventry back in 1987 , has been building his men up . |
| 29 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 30 | In my own case , it is the knowledge that a Labour victory has the effect of a firework in a stagnant pool , in that it brings all the scum to the surface : not just the trade union ruffians , who have been biding their time , but the Left-wing teachers , the child abuse and anti-smoking fanatics , the Hunt Saboteurs , all the ugly underside of British life will suddenly have a powerful voice in the nation 's councils . |