Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
| 2 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 5 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 6 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 12 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 15 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 17 | I I the retail 's not within what we 've been talking about this afternoon but on the other hand it does employ more people per hectare than any industry we 've been talking about as as far as as far as I understand it . |
| 18 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 19 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 20 | I 've been waiting for this day all week . |
| 21 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 22 | I 've been waiting for this chance since the days of the Witch of Endor . |
| 23 | I 've been waiting for this moment all week . |
| 24 | Since the mid-1980s when the satanic child abuse scare first came to Britain , it seems that many workers within Social Services in particular have been influenced by this thinking . |
| 25 | Some vertical agreements , such as exclusive distribution and exclusive purchasing , have been examined under this framework . |
| 26 | The formation of a strategy for confronting the current crisis of accumulation in the world capitalist system will depend on the factors that have been examined in this chapter : the balance of social forces , class strategies and forms of political representation ; the broad historical character of the state ; and its internal composition , organizational interests , and dynamic . |
| 27 | Some definitions of style have been based on this assumption . |
| 28 | M. Dupont went on : ‘ Many things of interest have been said in this house over the past days . |
| 29 | In New York , visitors to the Studio Museum have been prepared for this recasting of Lam by a retrospective of his works on paper at the Americas Society , which travels to Barcelona 's Fundacio ‘ La Caixa ’ on 21 January . |
| 30 | Eleven background papers and four major issues papers have been prepared in this way . |