Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 2 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 3 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 4 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 5 | Funny enough , Peter and I have both been swimming together and we 've both got the same thing |
| 6 | It is hard to believe that Joan and I have now been staying on the east coast for six months . |
| 7 | This is the easiest knot to learn and you 've probably been tying it without knowing its name . |
| 8 | This one just flung the door open and she 'd either been standing behind it when I knocked or , more likely , she 'd seen me coming . |
| 9 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 10 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 11 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ We were together for a long time but we grew apart and we have both been working hard . ’ |
| 13 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 14 | w well not over her but , but really , really really chummy yeah , and I thought and he 'd just been saying how pretentious she was most of the evening most of the afternoon I mean . |
| 15 | But I suppose if you lose your job , and your dignity … and he 'd probably been drinking too much , which they say does n't help . |
| 16 | After he graduated from London 's Faculty of Astrological Studies , his star talents were spotted by veteran astrologer Patrick Walker and he has now been casting daily horoscopes for The Sun for over ten years . |
| 17 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |