Example sentences of "[vb base] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 2 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 3 | They say they have been waiting to be moved from the ‘ temporary accommodation ’ ever since . |
| 4 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 7 | ‘ So you still deny you 've been sleeping with Garry ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You mean you 've been talking about — what was she called ? — Inez — the mother of Matthew 's children ? ’ |
| 9 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 10 | ‘ I trust you 've been rehearsing at home . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I just wanted to you know I 've been thinking of you . ’ |
| 12 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 13 | ‘ I know you 've been sleeping with my husband . ’ |
| 14 | Peter , I know you 've been talking to delegates all day , what 's the atmosphere like there ? * |
| 15 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 16 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to my Hilda and young Ralph . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I hear you 've been talking to our friends in Manila , ’ he says , chattily , as though the difference in our rank means nothing to him . |
| 18 | Fastext for quick access to teletext and a full function infra-red remote control make this small portable the second set you 've been waiting for ! |
| 19 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 20 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 21 | ‘ I know he 's been looking for you . |
| 22 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 23 | I spose he has been fading towards the end of matches , but then again — who has nt ? |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose you 've been speaking against her ? ’ he added angrily to Joseph Poorgrass . |
| 25 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 26 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 27 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 28 | Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ? |
| 29 | ‘ I bet he 's been dying for an audience , ’ Dalziel said to Pascoe . |
| 30 | it 's been going around and around here for the last four days er I bet it 's been coming round the block up this street about eight to ten times a day , I du n no what 's it doing , the up here |