Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 2 | What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ? |
| 3 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 4 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 5 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 6 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 7 | Do you know I 've been dieting for week and I feel |
| 8 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 9 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 10 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 11 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 12 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 13 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 14 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 15 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 16 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 17 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 18 | ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’ |
| 19 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 20 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 21 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 22 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 23 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |
| 24 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 25 | Childrens World marketing communications controller John Forester says he has been talking to agencies with the knowledge of the incumbent GGT and insists there is no review of the Sears-owned business . |
| 26 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 27 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 28 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 29 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 30 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |