Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [v-ing] like " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly . |
| 2 | I 've been thinking like a crook . ’ |
| 3 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 4 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 6 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 7 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 8 | You 've been behaving like a commodity broker on Black Thursday , have n't you ? |
| 9 | I do n't know what 's got into you , but you 've been behaving like a caged lioness all morning . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been working like a Trojan all day ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been slaving like a scullery maid . ’ |
| 12 | No she 's going somewhere we went to Donny other day all money we 've been getting like , when I first , she , when I first , before we got that giro for me |
| 13 | We 've been gossiping like anything . |