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Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But Forest manager Clough , already upset with his team 's disappointing start , yesterday declared : ‘ Both players have been to see me about new contracts but they 're not getting them .
2	My hon. Friend has been to see me about this matter with a group of colleagues .
3	I 've been seeing her for three years . ’
4	Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said .
5	The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value .
6	Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors .
7	He did one thing in Hollywood for which he has not been given anything like sufficient credit .
8	Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now .
9	I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same .
10	You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine .
11	but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier
12	The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’
13	After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’
14	All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation .
15	But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday .
16	Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week .
17	My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! ,
18	They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines .
19	And I 'd been paying it for two years then
20	‘ You 've been told one in 10 couples is infertile but they ca n't be in your street , can they ?
21	Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time .
22	Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time .
23	I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time .
24	Because he knows that somebody else has has been offered it for twenty quid .
25	I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising .
26	For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time .
27	Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now .
28	I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died .
29	He 's been doin' it for forty years .
30	Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure .