Example sentences of "[pron] 've be [v-ing] [adv] to " in BNC.
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1 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
2 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
3 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you too , ’ she answered , which was true . |
4 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
5 | I 've been looking forward to seeing you so much . |
6 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
7 | ‘ Do you know all the way here I 've been looking forward to your particular brand of polite conversation ? |
8 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to seeing you , ’ he said , coming up close so I could smell him . |
9 | ‘ Dr Blake — Lindsey — I 've been looking forward to meeting you . |
10 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to meeting you , ’ she smiled . |
11 | The two men , who 've been waiting up to a year for treatment , are both muslims . |
12 | At long last you 've got a spare half hour to play that adventure you 've been looking forward to ! |
13 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
14 | ‘ Is that why you 've been going over to France such a lot ? ’ |
15 | It means you 've — you 've been coming on to me … ’ |
16 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
17 | Mind you the best ones would be by er those ones they 've been selling off to the highest offer . |
18 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |