Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 2 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 3 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | Should I have been told before this ? |
| 6 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 7 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
| 8 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
| 9 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 11 | I 've been thinking about this , too . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
| 13 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 14 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 15 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 16 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been waiting for this , ’ says Iain . |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 19 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 20 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 21 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 22 | I 've been recording for this |
| 23 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 26 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 27 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 28 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 29 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 30 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |