Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [vb base] be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 2 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 3 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 4 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 6 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 7 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 8 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 9 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 10 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 11 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 12 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 13 | And what I suggest we do is seeing Georgina 's here we send you through to see Georgina and she can , if she 's got time , we can briefly run through one or two types . |
| 14 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 15 | Tenants in a house at Brockworth near Gloucester , who say they 've been paying rent for six months , barracaded themselves in when they heard they were being evicted because their landlord had defaulted on his mortgage . |
| 16 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 17 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 18 | ‘ They all live in the Sydenham , Inverary Park , Holywood Road , and Garnerville area and say they have been feeling very unwell . |
| 19 | I hope you have been receiving mail from me . |
| 20 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 21 | ‘ So you still deny you 've been sleeping with Garry ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You mean you 've been investigating them ? ’ |
| 23 | I think , I think the other thing is as well though is that when you , I mean you 've been sitting pensions cos I mean I had the P H I which I thought it was easier to actually describe erm but erm it 's easy for us to actually sit back and , and go back on everything that everyth er everybody else did wrong is n't it , so |
| 24 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
| 26 | Look I 've been holding Richard . |
| 27 | Look I 've been washing my hair |
| 28 | Before you start trying to watch home movies on your PC , remember that although Microsoft is kind enough to include a very basic multi media player and recorder ( both illustrated ) as part of the standard Windows desktop , in order to go some way towards true multi media you need a few more things : a windows multi media extension , a CD-ROM drive , a sound card and probably a new monitor , not to mention that faster machine you 've been promising yourself . |
| 29 | ‘ In the meantime we 've still got a couple of days left , and I 'd better start getting my act together , or my replacement is going to wonder what sort of service we 've been running here ! |
| 30 | But I mean we 've been going over and over that proposal . |