Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] about [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 2 | In general , we have been writing about those melodies which are complete and have a well-defined entirety . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been wondering about that , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I 've been wondering about that myself . |
| 5 | ‘ I have been wondering about that , ’ Cranston replied . |
| 6 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 7 | I 've been brooding about that myself ever since I heard . |
| 8 | the thing , I mean everybody 's been complaining about that but considering all that he has n't done bad has he ? |
| 9 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 've been reading about these waves . ’ |
| 11 | Gardeners have been arguing about this for years , so I hope we can clear the matter up now once and for all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | erm , moving on , erm audio description in Scotland , no er since this , the last meeting , yes Cath and I have been talking about all that money , we had an entertaining day out |
| 14 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 15 | One of the great advantages of the advent of councillor and councillor to this council is in fact because of the motions which , I have to say even nine times out of ten I do n't agree with a word of , or even ninety nine times out of a hundred I do n't agree with a word of what have we been talking about this last three quarters of an hour , housing , yeah . |
| 16 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been involved in football for 24 years and we have been talking about this problem for all that time . |
| 18 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The aspects of energy that we have been talking about this evening erm are part of your course , are they discussed in this form by the students taking your course ? |
| 21 | What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ? |
| 22 | Having said that , I do n't blame them because ‘ Ironfist ’ was n't the greatest album it could have been and ‘ Another Perfect Day ’ , well , I 've been thinking about that and I 'm sure it was n't just the album … ’ |
| 23 | I have been thinking about that riddle . |
| 24 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 25 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
| 26 | ‘ Listen , kiddo , I 've been thinking about this . |
| 27 | I 've been thinking about this , sir — well , I 've had nothing else to think about . |
| 28 | ‘ Doctor , I 've been thinking about this planet . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been thinking about this time muddle , Cassie . |
| 30 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |