Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] about [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you 've been thinking about taking out a subscription to the Royal Horticultural Society , now 's the time to do it . |
| 2 | I 've been thinking about doing something like that , ’ I said , more out of politeness than accuracy . |
| 3 | I do n't believe it , paid all that money for a digital said look at the about stuff , at the end of the day they , he is five a side football stuff like that , had I 've been thinking about joining again , but I do n't really know what I 'm gon na do after Christmas now even Karen said she would n't mind joining but I tried , I managed to put her off that idea . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , I 've been thinking about becoming a wrestler myself , ’ confesses Philip . |
| 5 | erm so no certainly they asked me about it and so on but I think that rather like their food forum they might like to get a communications forum going erm because they 've been thinking about having a Business Club and various other things because they 're involved with the Management Programme and all sorts of things and they maybe going to do some training for heads and people like that |
| 6 | I mean here we are , we 've been talking about taking holidays in this area , and I imagine that much of the work that you do as a local Tourist Board is not actually directly aimed at people who live in this area . |
| 7 | What do you imagine goes on in my head all night when you 've been talking about splitting up ? |
| 8 | Erm it seems to me that we 've been talking about capturing elephants but er is it really a Trojan horse ? |
| 9 | You know , I 'd like to ask a question , why is it so , why is it so frightening to spoil yourself ? , why is it such a , a wrong thing to spoil yourself , erm we 've been talking about make up we 've been talking about |
| 10 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 11 | Yes of course , er , you know this thing we 've been talking about joining with the |
| 12 | As a non-disabled worker , or ‘ professional ’ , I have been learning about releasing control of the work . |
| 13 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 14 | People have been talking about finding ‘ one voice ’ for the industry for many years . |
| 15 | If people have been wavering about giving us information this might just be the thing to make them come forward |