Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [v-ing] it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 2 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 3 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 5 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 6 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 7 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 8 | I 've been treating it as a wart . |
| 9 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 10 | I 've been doing it without thinking . |
| 11 | I 've been doing it without you taking much notice for thirty years . ’ |
| 12 | Living is very important to me as I 've been doing it for a fair few years now . |
| 13 | I 've been doing it for years . |
| 14 | I used to say Uncle I do n't lie , you know you 're do oh I 've been doing it for years you all that sort of thing you know . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been doing it for some time , have n't I , love ? ’ |
| 16 | I 've been doing it for |
| 17 | Oh I 've been doing it for a long time have n't I ? |
| 18 | Well I 've been doing it for a |
| 19 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 20 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 21 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 22 | ‘ I bet you 've been discussing it with Ian , who , nice as he is , is a male vet , and they 're like the farmers . |
| 23 | You you 've been taking it for how long ? |
| 24 | So to find out how much you 've used , you 've got to multiply it by how long you 've been using it for . |
| 25 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 26 | You 've been saying it for so long . |
| 27 | You 've been doing it to each other all the time but if I were to hurt you or if anybody else here were to hurt you physically or mentally how many times would you forgive them ? |
| 28 | So it takes all the pain out of coming up with annual appraisals because you 've been doing it on an incremental basis . |
| 29 | I started out that way and not listening to the people you 've been doing it for years and say this is the way you do it . |
| 30 | Well I better not tell them because it will completely spoil their holiday but erm it 's h it 's interesting because we 've been mentioning it to other people I 'm sure they 've never . |