Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been seeing her for 3 and a half years . |
| 2 | I 've been seeing her for three years . ’ |
| 3 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 4 | Oh he said well I have n't been handling it for six weeks I said . |
| 5 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 6 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 7 | You will no doubt have been assisting her in basic matters connected with the running of her home while she is still in a state of shock following her husband 's death , for at this point even the most capable women sometimes find day-to-day planning and decision-making very hard to cope with and need to be eased gently back into their normal routine . |
| 8 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 9 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 10 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 11 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 12 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 13 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 14 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 15 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 16 | ‘ Philosophers have been pondering it for thousands of years . ’ |
| 17 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 18 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 19 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's O.K. , I 've been selling them for twelve , I think I 've got the knack ’ I said . |
| 21 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 22 | I have been growing them for ten years , and for the past two years I have been hybridising . |
| 23 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 24 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 25 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 26 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 27 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |
| 28 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 29 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 30 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |