Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] [be] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , obviously we 've been playing this game for hours . |
| 2 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 3 | all they do is diddle some keys and it goes off to T S B and then it goes into your account , that 's the way it 's supposed to work |
| 4 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |
| 5 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 6 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 7 | All he does is fish all day long . |
| 8 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 9 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 10 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 11 | Traditionally it has been assumed that thinking , whether about value or about fact , has to be fully detached from the spontaneous , which engages with it only as emotion biasing judgement . |
| 12 | Clearly it had been taken several years earlier , but it showed , even then , the supercilious cast of a face which had looked into the camera with head held well back , and lips that seemed to smile with a curious arrogance above the Vandyke beard . |
| 13 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 14 | Now we 've been doing these or working with estate agents for twenty years . |
| 15 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 16 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 17 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 18 | Well I 've been practising this . |
| 19 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 20 | Well I mean I do n't , well I 've never I think 's holding that hat on . |
| 21 | Certainly nobody had been taking any notice of this one — but then , had n't he been playing very badly , anyway ? |
| 22 | Recently we have been learning that young animals , puppy dogs , even a giraffe , brought up exclusively by humans will be unable later on to identify themselves or establish emotional contact with their own species . |
| 23 | Next she considered the potatoes : in the past she had always cooked them in their skins , but recently it had been suggested that potato skins , if not carcinogenic , were yet harmful to the system , perforating the bowel or preventing it from absorbing the vital vitamins . |