Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 3 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 4 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it all the way back from your cottage and I believe I 've got just a tiny little bit of an idea . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been thinking about it , and nothing better suggests itself . |
| 8 | I 've been thinking about it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it . |
| 10 | " But I 've been thinking about it , Nenna , and praying . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it , ’ said Derek . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been thinking about it . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 14 | yes well I 've been thinking about it , what you want is a |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been waiting for it coming through you know . |
| 17 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 18 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 19 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 21 | ‘ Man , I 've been longing for it … |
| 22 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 23 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 24 | I have been looking at it . |
| 25 | There is a special shop for foreigners here , called the ‘ Friendship Store ’ , and I have been looking round it . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been wondering about it ever since I first heard . |
| 27 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 28 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 29 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 30 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |