Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] in " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Whoever it is , I 've been looking in your books and you have n't got your name in your books .
2 since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there !
3 I 've been looking in there .
4 — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan .
5 For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian .
6 ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned .
7 Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer .
8 We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers .
9 Erm one of the problems that we 've been facing in the past , certainly , in G P House is the amount of stuff that 's on the floor and therefore we have n't actually been able to tackle these things very effectively .
10 ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees .
11 I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks .
12 are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs .
13 Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis .
14 For house physician John Bery , the day begins at Cheltenham General Hospital when he puts on a pedometer.He 's one of a group of doctors who 've been helping in a survey of the distances covered while on duty.Soon Dr Bery is heading for a ward at the opposite end of the hospital.It 's the first of many long walks along the corridors during the day.The problem at Cheltenham general is identical to many other hospitals … where an old Victorian block has been extended with newer buildings forcing doctors to travel great distances from department to department .
15 ‘ You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered .
16 But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you .
17 But beware — the Black Night 's ghoulish cohorts are everywhere , and rumour has it that they 've been dabbling in the dark arts …
18 So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this .
19 Landowners are demanding that the police get tough with so-called new age travellers who 've been gathering in the region .
20 Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost .
21 The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing .
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 I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it .
24 His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever .
25 Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street .
26 Totally negative approach , of course if you start to do a programme which we have n't been involved in some mistakes will be made but we should be positive and look forward to see how we can avoid the mistake we 've been making in the future .
27 It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search .
28 ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components .
29 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 .
30 They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other .
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