Example sentences of "but [pron] [vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 2 | " But I 've been thinking about it , Nenna , and praying . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 5 | You 'd be on the line for a certain amount of publicity , but I 've been looking at today 's papers and it seems you 've already had a taste of what the Press can be like … ’ |
| 6 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 7 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 9 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 10 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 11 | I do n't know what 's got into you , but you 've been behaving like a caged lioness all morning . |
| 12 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 13 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 14 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 15 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 16 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 17 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 18 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |