Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've be making " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's the kind of thing I 've been making people do all day . |
| 3 | I 've been making notes on it , all evening . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since I was a boy , I 've been making models and carvings , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ For your information I 've been making a cradle for Maggie 's baby while you was gone , ’ she said . |
| 6 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 7 | I suppose I 've been making a fool of myself . |
| 8 | As for Houseparties — well , I 've been making friends with the villa girls who run them on islands throughout the Med ; I 've sailed the Turkish coast on a ‘ Gulet ’ , and gone island-hopping in Greece on the luxurious motor yacht ‘ SunSun ’ — they 're all really floating Houseparties . |
| 9 | ‘ I got a whole morning off in Bruges , and I guess I 've been making up for it ever since . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been making enquiries on your behalf and I 'm astounded — astounded ! ’ |
| 11 | Well I 've been making Christmas cake this morning so I feel quite er happy with myself . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been making several very funny speeches and no bugger has laughed , so I 'm coming down . ’ |
| 13 | It would take too long to get the computer up and do it for you , but erm you can take that away with you if , if you like , that just makes the same points I 've been making now , but using a computer simulator . |
| 14 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 15 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |
| 16 | Well it 's part of er nationwide tour I 've been making , putting across the message that if you 're fortunate enough to have a Conservative Council , it costs you much less money . |
| 17 | Well , I 'm sure that there will be some folks at the lecture that will raise those questions , I , I have so much to say and I 've been making notes . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been making a lot of noise ’ , the mining man is alleged to have said . |
| 20 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Form a long line along the piece of road you 've been making and search the forest to the north . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been making a fool of yourself , dripping around like some lovesick teenager . |
| 23 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been making a meal of me with your eyes all evening ! ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 26 | Not bad for two blokes whose life story is ‘ We 've been making music as a hobby for eight years , and now we want the money ! ’ |
| 27 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 28 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 29 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 30 | Right , he probably does think that , but is n't it interesting er does n't this illustrate the point we 've been making that he felt he needed to have a play that , strung that historical cord as it were . |