Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 2 | ‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices . |
| 3 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 4 | We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale . |
| 5 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been hoping against hope you two would get together ! ’ |
| 7 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 10 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 11 | ‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking about convert these speakers this time |
| 13 | So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ? |
| 14 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 16 | We 've been moving at night . |
| 17 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 18 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 19 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 20 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered . |
| 22 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 23 | Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ? |
| 24 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 25 | And tell me what else you 've been doing at school ? |
| 26 | Just talk like what you 've been doing at school and things like that . |
| 27 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 28 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 29 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 30 | This includes the profit from the SAVE FACE party reported over page , monies raised by various club activities , and the profit from the merchandise we 've been selling by mail order these past three months . |