Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been thinking about humans a lot . ’ |
| 32 | I 've been thinking about dragons all my life , but this is the first time one has turned up . ’ |
| 33 | 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 ? |
| 34 | ‘ We 've been struggling for years . |
| 35 | You 've been straining at gnats , Jesus said , and yet , you 've allowed the big issues to go by without bothering with them . |
| 36 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 37 | I 've been trying for days , though , I 'm coming over tomorrow . |
| 38 | But if you can actually influence the French let us know because , or let the government know , because they , they 've been trying for years ever since Napoleon 's day , to try and do something . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 41 | We 've been moving at night . |
| 42 | yes you 've been promising for weeks |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | 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 . ’ |
| 45 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 46 | ‘ You 've been listening at keyholes , have you ? |
| 47 | They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases . |
| 48 | I 've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day . |
| 49 | ‘ You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered . |
| 50 | The sort of prices which people charged and I 've been speaking with Jack only this morning , the sort of prices people charged , started way , way , way down , and then went way , way , way up . |
| 51 | Well then about a month later he said he rung June and said I 've been speaking to Geoff he said and th they wan na hi er hire a car for a week . |
| 52 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 53 | You 've been raving about galleons and sea creatures . ’ |
| 54 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 55 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | I 've been staying with Rose , Drew 's mother , since we heard about the crash . |
| 58 | I 've been staying with Aunt Alicia for the past six months … |
| 59 | Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ? |
| 60 | 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 . |