Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb base] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | One always seems to come back to climate as the primary explanation of the sort of phenomena I have been discussing , but for the ultimate control , sooner or later , we must face the possibility of an extra-terrestrial cause , though in most geological circles one seems to be expected to blush when doing so . |
| 3 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 4 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 5 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 6 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 7 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 8 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 9 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
| 10 | ‘ Many months I have been saving , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 12 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 13 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 14 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 15 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 16 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 17 | I will concentrate , together with my wife , on areas I have been dealing in and know well , such as Expressionism , Viennese Art before 1914 , with Schiele and Klimt , history-making design and outstanding drawings and watercolours . |
| 18 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 19 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 20 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 21 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 22 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 23 | For three years I 've been biding my time , digging in at Deptford . |
| 24 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 25 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 26 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 27 | Erm erm and then he was going spare and he says these are the worst I 've ever received in all the years I 've been teaching , right ? |
| 28 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 29 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |