Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] be [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 2 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 3 | Is n't that what you 've just been telling me ? |
| 4 | ‘ You mean that 's the monster you 've just been telling me all about ? ’ |
| 5 | You 've just been telling us all what a relief it was to get out of the city . ’ |
| 6 | Er so it 's mainly erm what I 've just been telling you about cleaning all |
| 7 | I 've just been borrowing you . |
| 8 | We 've just been ironing it , sellotaping it and refolding it . |
| 9 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been tellin' you how Mr Winterburn chased me all over the house when 'is fam'ly was at church one Sunday . |
| 11 | Sir I 've just been recording you . |
| 12 | a hundred , you know that , you just sort of , you 've just been doing it on those out of your head , so we 've got two hundred times , now what do we finish off with , we finish off with once |
| 13 | I 've just been doing it together . |
| 14 | Well it is for us because we 've always been saying it . |
| 15 | This is the easiest knot to learn and you 've probably been tying it without knowing its name . |
| 16 | funny , cos sulfasala I 've been s I 've certainly been using it for years and years and years with different folk fo er for something completely different . |
| 17 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 18 | Those Israelis whom this behaviour most appals have long been likening it to the earlier stages of Nazism , an analogy that found startling vindication with the recent disclosure that some units in the occupied territories draw on Nazi precedents for their own self-image , one calling itself the ‘ Mengele detachment ’ and another ‘ the Auschwitz company ’ . |
| 19 | That is why we have all been doing it , von Weizsacker , Theo Kordt in London , his brother Erich in Berlin , Canaris , Carl Burckhardt , Dahlerus , Wenner-Gren . |
| 20 | I have obviously been taking you for granted . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You have just been telling me about the steamy heat of New York in summer — and now you 're moaning about the cold weather here in London ! ’ |
| 22 | Doctors have today been examining him again to try to assess whether there 's been any damage to his sight . |
| 23 | The majority have simply been using it as a solvent . |
| 24 | Everybody wants that , but outside organisations have been lobbying the House — they have certainly been lobbying me , and I am not in a special position — ever since the matter was being debated in the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Russian sources have recently been making it clear that once current investment projects are up and running Cuba will get little more direct financial assistance . |