Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 4 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 5 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 6 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 7 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 8 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 9 | This month I 've been inundated with more questions about dog foods , and feeding in general . |
| 10 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 13 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 16 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 17 | they 've been done for many years |
| 18 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 19 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 20 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 21 | By investing some time and trouble in learning to capture and interpret your own dreams , you may well gain insight into those aspects of your life that we 've been discussing throughout this chapter — some of your needs as living , loving , sexual being , surviving , as we all must , in complex relationships with other people . |
| 22 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 23 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 24 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 25 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 26 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 28 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 29 | Somehow we 've been transported to another world . ’ |
| 30 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |