Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 3 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 4 | And I 've been looking after you since then . |
| 5 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 6 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 7 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And I 've been thinking about guns , ’ said Juliet . |
| 9 | and I 've been trying for ages but there just has n't been any cos |
| 10 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 13 | Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis . |
| 14 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 15 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 16 | ‘ When we have our celebration , it reminds me of Lourdes , and I 've been going to Lourdes since 1961 . |
| 17 | And I 've been going to the shop and changing a note every time for the change . |
| 18 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 19 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 20 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 21 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 22 | ‘ We came here ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ to talk about you and I 've been talking about nothing but myself the whole time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | and I 've been playing with my computer . |
| 25 | And I 've been running to the toilet , five times yesterday , five times , really bad . |
| 26 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 27 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 28 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 29 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 30 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |