Example sentences of "'ve [be] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We 've been looking for you for some months . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 8 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 9 | And I 've been looking after you since then . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been reading about it in the Veterinary Record and I 've cut out an article which deals with it . |
| 11 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 12 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 13 | ‘ So that 's why you 've been clinging to me like a leech all these months . |
| 14 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 15 | But on the other hand I 'm pleased the reasons they 've given for the delay are the points we 've been raising with them over the last two years . |
| 16 | Well we 've been planning for it for something like eleven months , with a small planning team , but at its height , just before Conference , there were a total of seventy officers involved . |
| 17 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 18 | I 've been working with him since ‘ Expecting To Fly ’ in 1968 . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been working with you for weeks . |
| 20 | I 've been working towards it from the start . |
| 21 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 22 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 23 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 24 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 25 | We 've been talking about them as facilitators and the need for compatibility , I think there 's also a need for every system to have a back-up of some kind , either of power or maybe a manual back-up , which in fact we were talking about the other evening . |
| 26 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 27 | What k what kind what 's changed in the short time are the things Wh when I 've been talking to them about the publicity you said that , The last few years there 's there has been |
| 28 | Richard Lewis , oh yes Sir , er , yes Sir , I 've just seen the figures , I 've been talking to them about it , oh yes , I 've told them exactly what 's wrong , but they do n't seem able to well yes Sir , I know it 's not good enough , but what can you do if you 've got idiots working for yo , what 's that , oh no Sir , I 'm not asking you , what , hello . |
| 29 | So I just want to run through very , very quickly some of the things which will sound very familiar , because a lot of the , a lot of the information is very similar to the information we 've been putting before you in terms of the radio and television situations . |
| 30 | ‘ Hullo , Pranger , I 've been waiting for you for years . ’ |