Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been ringing off and on since lunchtime . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been holding back again this passion . |
| 3 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 4 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 5 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 7 | Then there 's new positions I 've been reading about , yaar . |
| 8 | I 've been smoking on and off like a chimney |
| 9 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 10 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 13 | I 've been coughing on and off . |
| 14 | Er , I 'm er the last er f five days or so , I 've been getting up less . |
| 15 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 16 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 17 | Bob ; Not bad , not bad I 've been sorting out my council tax |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been sniffing around and nothing about this city smells kosher . |
| 19 | Yeah , but I 've been taking out , cos we had a rogue living above us you see , and I thought well he 's one of these that 'll take owt if he can get it you see . |
| 20 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 21 | I 've been wandering round for an hour swearing at everbody and everything . |
| 22 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 23 | I 've been saving up towards a Christmas food hamper all year and now it 's arrived I 'm very disappointed with it . |
| 24 | come home from work she said I 've been looking round in Boots and that for you , she said er I 've decided , she said I was gon na get you a gift voucher . |
| 25 | I 've been looking out for you . " |
| 26 | I 've been picking up after them all night and all morning . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been canoeing off and on for about ten years , but this is my first venture on the open sea , ’ he said . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been waiting around in Reception for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 29 | Yeah cos I 've been coming round at , cos you said I 'm in all day , you know sort of any time . |
| 30 | When asked about it , he replied in his much-imitated growl , ‘ Fifteen years I 've been coming up here and they have to go and put this lump of concrete in the middle of the road . ’ |