Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
| 3 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 6 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 7 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 8 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 9 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 11 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 12 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 15 | We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | All except , I can see , you know when they 've been asking for this money ? |
| 19 | But we 've been asking during this programme will the real John Major please stand up . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We 've been selling in this area fairly consistently across estate agents |
| 22 | But recently , I 've been going through some changes . |
| 23 | We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism . |
| 24 | I 've been meaning for many weeks now to pass on 's French address , which filtered through to us in January — but of course you may already have had it from or heard from Janet yourself . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what we 've been working for all season , ’ said the delighted Whitham , who now has his sights set on the international scene for 1994 , either in Superbikes or the 500cc Grand Prix series . |
| 26 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 29 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 30 | 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 . |