Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [v-ing] on [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’ |
| 2 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 5 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 6 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 7 | You 've been working on it , Ingrid , yes , with your teacher ? ’ |
| 8 | Wew 've been working on it for a long time , polticals issues are nothing to do with us , we 're a commercial company |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been checking on you , Angel , ’ he started , quietly but firmly . |
| 10 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 11 | Yes you have been doing , you have been working on it yes , yes |
| 12 | That has brought a great deal of success , because the French Government are now taking the tough measures that we have been pressing on them for 10 years . |
| 13 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 14 | Winnie , you have been , you have been , you have been cheating on me . |
| 15 | No , I have not , I have been cheating on you . |