Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [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 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 7 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 9 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 10 | Register Office , handful of guests , parents optional , drink-up at couple 's house ( in which they 've been living for several years already ) . |
| 11 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 12 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 13 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 14 | They 've been marching with full-time soldiers in Horseguards Parade . |
| 15 | Right they 've er they 've been preaching against Spanish slates . |
| 16 | But I 've been thinking about next week . |
| 17 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 19 | I 've been thinking about these requests for miracles . |
| 20 | I 've been thinking about these blinds for such a long time . |
| 21 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 23 | Everything they have in that shop is better than the one you 've been wearing for ten years . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 25 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 28 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 29 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 30 | 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 . |