Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 2 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 3 | Oh you 've been asked after that . |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 5 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 6 | 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 … ’ |
| 7 | No I 've been thinking about that actually , I must |
| 8 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 9 | ‘ You 've been snorin' in that chair all efternoon , John Williamson , ’ his wife said , lifting the old coat off his knees . |
| 10 | ‘ Luckily , I won £60,000 in 1991 and we 've been digging into that . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 13 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 14 | All I 've been introduced to that bloke as Sally 's friend ! |
| 15 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been wondering about that , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I 've been wondering about that myself . |
| 20 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 21 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 23 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 24 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 25 | I 've been playing with that idea all day . |
| 26 | I 've been brooding about that myself ever since I heard . |
| 27 | Thus 266 of 961 Housing Association houses have been completed since that date , 141 of 1201 local authority dwellings and 737 of 4395 private dwellings . |
| 28 | All that is true , but I do not say that young people who have been deprived in that way should go out and steal cars . |
| 29 | From the vendors ' viewpoint , it will be important tactically to ensure that the preferred party is selected once all potential deal breaking points have been cleared with that party . |
| 30 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |