Example sentences of "while [pron] 've been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell me what you 've been doing , while I 've been moving mountains . ’ |
| 2 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 3 | While I 've been injured I 've missed them and they 've missed me . |
| 4 | While I 've been to er while I 've been shopping I have n't had it on at all . |
| 5 | I 'm so glad you had this conversation with me while I 've been miked up and I 've got it all taped . |
| 6 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 7 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 8 | And those have gone home while I 've been doing something else for them , they 've gone , and left me ! |
| 9 | Oh you hear it , it 's rung for as much as twenty minutes while I 've been walking round . |
| 10 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 11 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 12 | While you 've been living it up in the lap of luxury — ’ |
| 13 | while you 've been swearing and that been going ever so , police 'll be round tomorrow |
| 14 | Me having tied up the whole of this campaign while you 've been whooping it up in Valencia — ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 16 | so she said while you 've been doing that she said she 's been sort of gassing to anybody you know , so she said it 's been mentioned by management and they said oh well she 'll be able to sort of hovering while she stood there you know , time , time to natter she could be erm , got time to do that . |
| 17 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've actually been trying to make up one about you , Miss Honey , while we 've been sitting here . ’ |
| 20 | It has been difficult while they 've been doing their exams , so we 've not been able to get them together as much as I would have liked . |