Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 2 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 3 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 4 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 5 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 6 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 7 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 8 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 9 | You 've been reading this place up . ’ |
| 10 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 11 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 12 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 13 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 14 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 15 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 16 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 17 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ They 've been showing this stuff for two years ’ . |
| 19 | Tell your daddy what you 've been doing this afternoon . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 21 | One of the things we 've been doing this year is to actually have a club once a week , a sort of club night , when teachers can come it — this is particularly primary teachers — and use our machinery , look at our programs , go through our library and meet each other , so that the people who have got some expertise can then go back to the school and sort of spread their information and their enthusiasm in their schools . |
| 22 | Well how you 've been doing this week ? |
| 23 | Yeah but we 've done some Your saying we 've got ta do something about Christmas that 's all I 've been doing this week ! |
| 24 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 26 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 27 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 29 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 30 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |