Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 've been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
2 | You 've got all red eyes there where you 've been crying . |
3 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
4 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
5 | Where where they 've been bombing it |
6 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
7 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
8 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
9 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
10 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
11 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
12 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
13 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
14 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
15 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
16 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
17 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
18 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
19 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
20 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
21 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
22 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
23 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
24 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
25 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
26 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
27 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
28 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
29 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
30 | Just give you one example if I may erm which erm will serve to underline the sort of points that I 've been making erm to you . |