Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 2 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 3 | Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis . |
| 4 | ‘ What I 've been using for about the last five years are Seymour Duncan amps . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been watching from across the road . |
| 6 | I must know how , I 've been looking at at the . |
| 7 | Let me tell you the sort of guys I 've been dealing with for years . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been waiting for on one . |
| 9 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 10 | ‘ When it works , it 'll be nothing to be ashamed of It 's what I 've been working towards for most of my professional life , ’ the doctor said defensively . |
| 11 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 12 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | Well I asked him was he alright and he said aye , and then I fell asleep , I 've been sleeping from after eight twenty past eight . |
| 14 | The chairs were designed to complement the table and represent one set of variations on a chair design that I have been experimenting with for years . |
| 15 | I 'm sure that over the years , you 'll have er , gone through some of the experiences that Madeline and I have been talking about over the last five minutes . |
| 16 | Brightest spot : the final , disgraceful death of the opinion poll industry , which I have been campaigning for since 1983 . |
| 17 | ‘ This is what I have been waiting for to really make the hotel complete . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 19 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 20 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 21 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 22 | The one you 've been looking for for ages ? |
| 23 | The person you 've been working with over the last couple of days . |
| 24 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 25 | We 'd been shagging for about a month . |
| 26 | In other words , we 've been funding from within our own budget new developments that 'll come on stream next year and it 's a very complicated budget and it contains some quite erm controversial erm subjects , which no doubt we 'll go through in a minute , but overall erm , given the total financial situation , I 'm a relieved man today . |
| 27 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 28 | Erm what we 've been dealing with on Vienna is dealt with in section forty six reaction and revolution in Europe . |
| 29 | He says , here 's something , he says , we , we 've been looking for for years and here 's me stumbling on it accidentally . |
| 30 | Something that we 've been looking for for months and months ! |