Example sentences of "been [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 3 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 4 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 5 | ‘ Sergeant , ’ said Alice , ‘ had someone been phoning Mary ? |
| 6 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 7 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 8 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 9 | Men have been pursuing North Uist sea-trout for hundreds of years and the island is rich in sites of archaeological interest ; brilliantly described by Dr Erskine Beveridge in his definitive book , North Uist : its Archaeology and Topography , published in 1911 . |
| 10 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 11 | They had been to see La Boheme , at which Mr O'Hara had cried quite openly , and which Ellie had sat through dry-eyed , but with a breaking heart . |
| 12 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 13 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 14 | Ludens was glad he had been to see Franca and felt sure , as he sat in another taxi bound for Victoria , that she had understood why , and in what frame of mind , he had come . |
| 15 | ‘ I guess that you have been to see Mrs Laura Lyons , ’ he said , and when I told him that he was right , he went on : ‘ When we put together everything that each of us has discovered , I expect we shall know almost everything about this case . ’ |
| 16 | But , after we 'd been to see Mrs Diamond , she was like you … . |
| 17 | But they can count the number of times they 've been to see Elvis the Musical ; 38 to date and it will be forty by the end of the week . |
| 18 | ‘ They say things like ‘ I 've just been to see Mum ’ so I must be still in it sort of , ’ she laughs . |
| 19 | He had already been to see Mussolini in the previous year and had been advised to call his New Party ‘ Fascist ’ but to play down its military organisation . |
| 20 | We 've just been to see Jean there at the chippy . |
| 21 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 22 | Already I was wishing I 'd never been to see Angy , even though I knew how much being estranged from his family had hurt him and it would mean a lot to him to get the ring back . ’ |
| 23 | Again they looked at each other in silence , and then he said very slowly , ‘ I 've been to see Beecham and Holden . |
| 24 | And then erm we ai n't even been to see Barbara and her and her new house and they only live |
| 25 | ‘ Well , if you 're sure you 're not suffering from any after-effects from the accident , I wo n't keep you any longer , ’ said Rachel with a brief smile , then as Jimmy stood up to leave she said casually , ‘ By the way , have you been to see Len ? ’ |
| 26 | And if the England boss had been to see QPR in recent weeks , he would have been impressed , especially with Sinton . |
| 27 | ‘ I suppose he calls round after he 's been to see Rosa , ’ I said . |
| 28 | Well , I 've been to see Mr , and then I was off again to see him , and he said I was right . |
| 29 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 30 | She knew Penny had not been raiding apples , but she had n't convinced Farmer Bolsover of it . |