Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [been] [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 2 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 5 | I 've been looking forward to seeing you so much . |
| 6 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you know all the way here I 've been looking forward to your particular brand of polite conversation ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him . |
| 9 | ‘ Dr Blake — Lindsey — I 've been looking forward to meeting you . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you , ’ she smiled . |
| 11 | I have been listening in to the E-Mail for some weeks , and in fact even coming in on weekend to pick up the results and comments . |
| 12 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 13 | I felt really devastated that we lost and for that reason I have been looking forward to playing in this event again . ’ |
| 14 | Looking immaculate in a bright red suit she said : ‘ I have been looking forward to this moment for a long time and I am glad to have been a part of it . ’ |
| 15 | Oh , I have been looking forward to this evening … ’ |
| 16 | It so happens Kelly and I have been looking forward to this weekend , and I guarantee that men will play no part in it at all . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I have been looking forward to her visit for weeks and was very excited when I met her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have been looking forward to her visit for weeks and was very excited when I met her . |
| 19 | It is a game I have been looking forward to for some time . |
| 20 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
| 21 | At long last you 've got a spare half hour to play that adventure you 've been looking forward to ! |
| 22 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
| 24 | It means you 've — you 've been coming on to me … ’ |
| 25 | All those who have been sticking religiously to their macrobiotic diet sheets while dreaming wistfully of soft boiled eggs and buttered soldiers can probably breathe again ( but watch this space ) . |
| 26 | Do not simply give a list of the work you have been doing up to date but show how the experience you have gained in the other job has directly fitted you to do the new one . |
| 27 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 28 | We have been looking forward to it for a long time , ’ said one oilman . |
| 29 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
| 30 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |