Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 've been holding it to save it . |
| 2 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 3 | Naturally , I 've been thinking it over ever since poor Sarah burst into my room this morning . |
| 4 | Since then I 've been thinking it over and I 've come up with an idea . |
| 5 | I 've been thinking it 's needed some more in for the last few meals . |
| 6 | " I 've been dreading it , " he said . |
| 7 | I 've been bottling it up inside me far too long . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been eating it for years but it 's weird . |
| 9 | I mean about , what , recently I 've been getting it for ages and this time it was n't there , and I , and I thought to myself dam it I 'm not going |
| 10 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 11 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Anne , if I 've been taking it out on you these past couple of weeks . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been taking it for two and a half years . |
| 15 | And he said oh I 've been taking it out of one of our own caravans , our own caravans he said . |
| 16 | I 've been feeding it a goodly amount of quinine and aspirin in the night to keep it from going hungry . " |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been expecting it ever since I heard that they found Uncle Mosse underneath the floorboards . |
| 18 | I 've been filling it in |
| 19 | I 've been filling it in in pencil . |
| 20 | I 've been saving it . |
| 21 | We will include this poem : I 've been saving it up for the right occasion . ’ |
| 22 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 23 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 24 | As I opened the bottom door he said , I 've been hitting it . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working it out , Charlie . |
| 26 | Oh , I think I 'm wholly French , she said : I 've been working it out . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been giving it a lot of thought , ’ he says slowly , chewing on the pipe , and smoothing the glossy black hair above the drooping face . |
| 28 | I 've been giving it a great deal of thought myself in recent weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ No , but I 've been giving it a lot of thought , and it seems to me that the person who fits the bill is … ’ |
| 30 | I 've been restoring it — between other jobs . |