Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [been] [v-ing] here " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 2 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 3 | I 've been waiting here for ages . |
| 4 | I 've been waiting here for ten minutes = I 'm waiting here ten minutes |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been waiting here for two hours , Fagin , ’ said the stranger . |
| 6 | I 've been coming here for some time and only now am I relaxed there . |
| 7 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 8 | He 's been at Pepe 's as long as I 've been coming here — though he does sometimes take holidays , I must admit . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 11 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 12 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been lying here , thinking about it . ’ |
| 14 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 15 | He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever . |
| 16 | I 've been sitting here and thinking about God . |
| 17 | " Silly , really , I 've been sitting here puzzling about what to do and it 's suddenly clear . " |
| 18 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 19 | " I 've been sitting here worried sick . " |
| 20 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 21 | I 'm going to bed cos I 'm actually knackered and I do n't why I 've been sitting here talking |
| 22 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 23 | I have been suggesting here that contemporary class-based analyses of urban and regional development have a number of common themes . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been coming here for nine years and have a feel for the heart of the city and this song says it all . ’ |
| 25 | Although I am anxious to avoid entering into aesthetic theory or acting theory to any large extent it has to be conceded that the topic I have been tackling here , the logical relationship between emotion occurring and emotion described has been of central interest to aestheticians and acting theorists alike . |
| 26 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 27 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 28 | The research-oriented approach to teaching that I have been proposing here obviously sets a high premium on teacher preparation , and that in turn raises the issues of the education and training of teachers . |
| 29 | These motives are obviously relevant to the discourse analysis I have been describing here ; indeed it will be clear by now that the two motives correspond , respectively , to the ‘ dominance ’ and ‘ difference ’ currents . |
| 30 | just since you 've been living here ? |