Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [prep] this [noun] " 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 . |