Example sentences of "but [pers pn] have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 2 | " But I 've been thinking about it , Nenna , and praying . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd guessed Donna had a twin sister — somewhere — and I — oh , I know this sounds silly , but I 've been thinking about it , ever since the transplant was mentioned , before Juliet made me realise who she ws . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 5 | You 'd be on the line for a certain amount of publicity , but I 've been looking at today 's papers and it seems you 've already had a taste of what the Press can be like … ’ |
| 6 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 7 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 8 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ But I have been thinking about taking a course , ’ she said . |
| 11 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 12 | But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you . |
| 13 | I do n't know what 's got into you , but you 've been behaving like a caged lioness all morning . |
| 14 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 15 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 16 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 17 | But we 've been talking about it for three four months . |
| 18 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 19 | ‘ But we have been working on a few things , just as we did before the first leg . |
| 20 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 21 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 22 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 23 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |
| 24 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 25 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 26 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 27 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 28 | Social embarrassment , duly fictionalised , is an odd commodity to export , and it does not figure in official balance-of-payments figures ; but it has been selling around the world since Fielding 's Tom Jones and Scott 's Waverley , not to mention Wodehouse 's Bertie Wooster . |
| 29 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 30 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |