Example sentences of "thing [pron] [verb] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 2 | I said oh I 'm not gon na give you my telephone number after the things I 've been hearing about you ! |
| 3 | ‘ So do I ; it 's one of the things I 've been missing about Australia — that and the sun . ’ |
| 4 | In other words , these things I 've been talking about , map , if I may use that concept again from mathematics , they map to earlier feelings . |
| 5 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 7 | Cos the various things you 've been saying about the rich peasant economy , I mean |
| 8 | The things you 've been saying about him . |
| 9 | And so , le let's just conclude our our thinking and some of the things we 've been looking at , |
| 10 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 11 | Now it 's important that we come up with some interesting things because , as you know , as the course goes on we 're going to be joined by professionals from the media , in the form of Bob Satchwell later on this afternoon , and other gentlemen from the local radio and so forth tomorrow , and they 're actually going to , as it were , confirm , or not , as the case may be , the sort of things we 've been talking about . |
| 12 | It will be a real chance to learn in a practical way many of the things we have been studying over the last few months . |
| 13 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 14 | For example own ( I am my own master ) or ( the ) very ( That 's the very thing I 've been looking for ! ) . |
| 15 | That is the very thing I had been wishing for — someone to recommend me . |
| 16 | Close behind him followed Alain Lemarchand , looking more suspicious than intrigued , and Glyn said the very thing she had been praying for . |
| 17 | Yes of course , er , you know this thing we 've been talking about joining with the |
| 18 | They said the only thing we 've been talking about at R F S is his er wheel effects . |
| 19 | But this thing we 've been doing with an acid and an alkali , most of the bases will do it as well , |